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Wesley Pretsch

Summary

Ambitious software engineer entering the industry with experience in cyber security, cloud technologies, and database management. While attending university, Wesley contributed to development projects including BioMojo's Virtual Patient Experience, Tech @NC State's Wolfsnax, IBM's Issue Recommendation Engine, and IBM's SOS Compliance Reporting team. He also co-founded and served as president for a student-led organization Secured By NC State, which spread cybersecurity awareness at NC State University. During his professional career, he has served as a backend developer and iteration manager for the IBM SOS Data Platform team. Wesley also takes time to create light-board presentation videos for the IBM Technology YouTube channel.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Backend Developer

IBM
06.2022 - Current
  • Lead development enhancement for local vulnerabilities view on team's Web UI, the view is accessed about 10k times per day by developers across IBM
  • Conducted performance testing for DB2 On-Prem and EDB Postgres VPC databases with JMeter, proved VPC superior via CPU, Memory, and Disk IO usage
  • Developed DB Performance Testing Service using Flask and JMeter to run the app / tests; deployed to Openshift VPC cluster which interacted with Instana and IBM Cloud components. The service oversaw 100's of performance tests that stressed databases, collected metrics, and produced readable reports.

Light-board Presenter

IBM
03.2023 - 12.2023
  • Wrote and presented multiple light-board presentations for the IBM Technology YouTube Channel, scripts were reviewed and vetted by production team
  • Topics included: Cyber careers, Malware, Python, Database Migration
  • Accrued over 40k views across videos

Iteration Manager

IBM
05.2023 - 11.2023
  • Scrum master for daily stand-up meetings and Sprint Planning / Retrospectives every 2 weeks
  • Managed Agile iterations for 15 developers during a 12+ month database migration project
  • Improved performance representation and sprint issue completion average by 17%

Security and Compliance Engineer Intern

IBM
05.2021 - 06.2022
  • Backend Developer of IRE (Issue Recommendation Engine) – tool that saves IBM approximately 3000 man-hours per month
  • Developed REST API endpoints to fetch and check system Health Check information for 1000+ teams across IBM, where each team accesses them at least once a day
  • Coded REST API endpoints to retrieve data for various microservices providing security operations across IBM (REVISE)

President and Co-Founder

Secured By
02.2021 - 05.2022
  • Started this student-led organization that is dedicated to cyber security education and awareness on college campuses
  • Interacted with 140+ students of all backgrounds and majors
  • Hosted 4 Keynote Events on security topics that relate to campus life including: IoT, 5G Security, and Safe Online Practices

Business-Development and Fullstack Developer

Tech@ NC State
01.2020 - 05.2021
  • Contributed to pro bono project for Feed The Pack to create a website that tracks volunteer hours, food inventory, and other analytics.
  • Created a sponsorship package and advertisements.
  • Developed RESTful API endpoints using Python and Flask

Software Development Intern

BioMojo LLC
05.2020 - 01.2021
  • Worked on the Virtual Patient Experience (VPE), improved the voice recognition feature through NLP
  • Created / fine-tuned an English language model through Mozilla DeepSpeech and CommonVoice.
  • Built multiple chatbots using Google’s Dialogflow, IBM Watson Assistant, and AWS Lex.
  • Developed Intent Recognition and Sentiment Analysis models by training with Google’s BERT.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science with Track in Security

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
05.2022

Skills

  • Public Speaking
  • Python, Java, C, C#, SAS
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Agile Management
  • Software Development
  • Cyber Security
  • Event Planning
  • Machine Learning

Certification

  • Associate of ISC2 - CISSP
  • IBM Agile Advocate
  • Developer Profession - Level 1 Foundation, IBM
  • IBM Machine Learning Specialist - Associate
  • IBM Watsonx Essentials

Timeline

Iteration Manager

IBM
05.2023 - 11.2023

Light-board Presenter

IBM
03.2023 - 12.2023

Backend Developer

IBM
06.2022 - Current

Security and Compliance Engineer Intern

IBM
05.2021 - 06.2022

President and Co-Founder

Secured By
02.2021 - 05.2022

Software Development Intern

BioMojo LLC
05.2020 - 01.2021

Business-Development and Fullstack Developer

Tech@ NC State
01.2020 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science with Track in Security

North Carolina State University

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