Hi, I'm

Wesley Edwards.
I build things for the web.

Software developer building full-stack apps, developer tools, and the occasional browser game. Projects, experiments, and things I probably built at 2am.

💼 Software Developer at Lightning Kite 🎓 M.S. Computer Science, Utah State 📍 Logan, Utah
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Wesley Edwards
01.

About

I'm a software developer at Lightning Kite in Logan, Utah, where I've spent the last few years building client software for healthcare compliance, event photo sharing, and more. I like building products end to end, from the API and data model to the UI people actually touch.

Outside of work I host a handful of my own apps on this server, maintain Simply Served, a small Node.js framework on npm, and build games, a few of them for hackathons like HackUSU.

I'm working on a master's in Computer Science at Utah State, where I also earned my bachelor's. I lived in Buenos Aires for two years and speak fluent Spanish.

Tools I often reach for

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Vite
  • Kotlin Multiplatform
  • Java
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Firebase
02.

Experience

  1. Software Developer @ Lightning Kite

    Feb 2022 – Present

    Logan, Utah

    • Full-stack development: Kotlin back ends (Lightning Server, MongoDB) and Kotlin Multiplatform front ends.
    • Built React/TypeScript front ends across 6 projects, leading front-end development on 3.
    • Work with clients on healthcare compliance, event photo sharing, and email spam filtering products.
    • Maintain in-house Node.js libraries used in production.

  2. M.S. Computer Science @ Utah State University

    Sep 2025 – Expected Spring 2028

    B.S. Computer Science · Sep 2020 – May 2024

Download full resume (PDF)
03.

Personal Projects

03.1

Featured Work

Budget No Budge

Manage accounts, track spending, and stick to your budgets. A full-stack personal finance app I use myself.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Full-stack
Live app ↗ 
// A full CRUD REST API for users
addController(app, {
  path: "/user",
  routes: modelRestEndpoints({
    validator: z.object({ name: z.string() }),
    collection: (db) => db.user,
    permissions: {
      read:   { type: "publicAccess" },
      modify: { type: "modelAuth", check },
      delete: { type: "notAllowed" },
    },
  }),
});

Simply Served

A lightweight Node.js framework: define your models and permissions, and it generates CRUD REST endpoints with Zod validation, on any database.

  • TypeScript
  • Express
  • Zod
  • npm
npm ↗ Code ↗

Agritime

A real-time multiplayer chess clock. Start a game, send invites, and every player's timer stays in sync across devices over sockets.

  • React
  • Joy UI
  • Node.js
  • WebSockets
Live app ↗ Code ↗

Mate Champion

A browser platformer: collect yerba mate, avoid enemies, and win the day.

  • TypeScript
  • Canvas
  • Game
Play ↗ Code ↗
03.2

Games

All of these run in the browser. Most came out of a game-dev class and hackathons.

Nightblood

HackUSU 2024 action game inspired by Oathbringer. Wield a cursed blade against waves of enemies.

Play ↗

Galaga

A take on the arcade classic, with a custom particle system and a React menu.

Play ↗

Trains Breakout

Breakout, but with trains. Built for a game development class.

Play ↗

Falling Blocks

A falling-block puzzle game, originally my game-dev midterm.

Play ↗
03.3

Tools & Experiments

PyTutor

Helps new CS students write programs top-down: AI stubs out functions so they can focus on structure first, then implement.

Try it ↗

NLP Autograder

An experiment in grading free-response answers with natural language processing.

Try it ↗

Crowd Evacuation

Agent-based simulation of a crowd evacuating a room, with agreeable and aggressive agents.

Run it ↗