Wes North is the Principal Consultant and Co-Founder of NorthernTek Inc. and has been providing technology expertise to small, mid-size and international corporations for over 20+ years. The last decade of Wes’ professional career has been focused on running technology and engineering operations teams (NetDevSecOps) for global SaaS corporations servicing millions of subscribers in over 180+ countries – a lot of work to say the least.

Wes is an experienced technology leader and engineer – “jack of all trades” – with a track record of accomplishments across a broad range of market verticals which include Tech, SaaS, Cloud, Financial, DoD, Government, Mortgage Industry, Retail, Health and Wellness. Wes is passionate about his work, specifically around the areas of Cloud Technology Engineering and Security, Multi-Cloud, Site Reliability, NetDevSecOps, Scalable and Resilient Architectures, Security and Compliance.

Wes holds an undergrad degree in Information Technology and a Masters in Business Administration, he and his family reside in Southern California where he enjoys writing songs, playing music, supporting locally sustainable food and farming communities, meditation, and managing the daily schedule of activities for Jackson (Chihuahua) and Leeloo (Boston Terrier).

04 – # of Public Cloud providers tinkered and scaled

08 – # of Languages hacked, scripted, shamelessly stitched together

06 – # of Operating Systems broken, fixed, architected, and blamed

05 – # of Database and NoSQL Technologies used to store “things and things about things”

06 – # of Storage services used addressing various data related workloads and mining activities

11 – # of Network Products used to create scalable and resilient global architectures