About
A former high-school physics and math teacher turned systems engineer working at the heart of the legacy fintech sector, Wes is deeply passionate about storytelling spanning the arts and sciences. He is currently working to transition away from a career path rooted in computer science and fintech to one rooted in physics.
In his spare time, Wes likes to make music and study film. As a creative challenge and as a big horror fan, he seeks to finish several (human-written) horror screenplays inspired by films like Get Out, Sinister, and Midsommar. Check out the highlights from Wes’ portfolio of work below spanning photography, film, music, and programming. Multitudes, I tell you!
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Screenplays
Logline: Years after the grisly unsolved murder of her parents, an ambitious woman moving into her first home with her increasingly rudderless husband must face the challenges and hurdles of trying for her first child, wanting more than anything to build the family she never had. After her initial attempt to start a family fails catastrophically, she begins to discover something much more sinister that is unfolding both outside and inside herself. Rosemary's Baby meets Hereditary meets Get Out (with the scale of Us) with a sprinkle of Overlord.
Logline: A group of college drop-outs buys an abandoned school in a rural Louisiana town with a terrifying history to film a new YouTube series for their blossoming ghost-hunters channel. Soon after the group moves into the school and starts publishing their series to great success, they discover a mysterious new content creator that seems to be documenting and even live streaming their life and work within the school. Imagine flipping the idea of Get Out on it’s head with a completely original new story while keeping the same ‘racial ratio’. A blend of found-footage and traditional cinematography à la Sinister and Sinister 2.
Status: story beats completed
Music
Listen below to three of Wes’ musical productions, created with Ableton. Each song demonstrates a certain aspect of music theory, and songwriting more broadly. Can you figure out which one is which? One demonstrates a moment. Another demonstrates a vibe. The third incorporates both to create something entirely different…and spookier.
Code
Check out Wes’ non-exhaustive GitHub page via the link below, although it’s not terribly interesting. Wes has worked on physics simulations with C++, APIs for enabling mTLS pipes between full Bitcoin nodes via a sidecar approach built with Java Springboot and PostgreSQL, personally hosted websites, and even 2D game development. Wes has contributed to several enterprise production systems as part of his systems engineering experience in the fintech sector. Basically, you can throw most programming problems at him and he will be able to figure it out.