wesleytodd

Javascript Blunderer. Node.js Platform Team @Netflix. Former Director of Development at @StreamMeDev.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/wesleytodd

Name: Wes Todd
Location: ATX
Company: @Netflix
Kind: user
Repositories count: 191
Created at: 2022-11-02T16:20:08.263Z
Updated at: 2023-04-09T04:32:01.674Z
Last synced at: 2023-04-09T04:32:01.107Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

Hey! I am Wes, and I work on JavaScript things. I have built OSS for ~10 (my first OSS project was a WordPress plugin!) and have become heavily involved in Node.js and it's ecosystem. I work on some projects you might recognize (and many I am sure you don't 😛):

Express
Node Package Maintenance WG
Express OpenAPI
PkgJS
Node Web Server Frameworks Team
Node Migrate
Many you don't recognize...

Despite it being pretty difficult to quantify "impact" of these projects, here are some signals which might help:

~300 million npm package downloads a month
Express TC Member since 2019
Regular participant in community groups: Package Maintenance WG, OpenJS Foundation CPC, Web Server Frameworks Team and, npm RFC calls

What Support Means
I have been thinking a lot on what "supporting Wes" should mean. I have a nice job which pays my bills already (thanks Netflix), and while that pay is not for my OSS contributions, I am very privileged. So instead of putting money in my bank account, I want to use the 💸💸💸 to advance my OSS initiatives. This means a few things:

Bounties on important contributions
Paying for "extras" like swag, better project marketing, etc
Experiments on supporting dependency projects
Producing content to educate on OSS projects and initiatives

So far I have not gotten much in the way of supporters, so I have just been sitting on it, but if you (or more importantly your company, thanks @getsentry) would like to support more of this work I would love to scale the investment as best I can to help support the OSS ecosystem which supported me in my career.