Wesley Eldridge is a full-stack engineer, entrepreneur, and researcher. He holds a BSBA from The University of Alabama, with a concentration in Applied Economics. Currently, he helps run Rebellious Lab’s, a product and engineering focused company.
Wes also works with Randall-Reilly as a web application developer within their product development group where he delivers high-value applications that reach more than 100,000 users a month. Outside of his professional career, Wes also contributes to open sources software.
He currently is a lead organizer and researcher for Pommerman, a multiagent reinforcement learning platform. This has given him and his team the opportunity to present at conferences like NeurIPS, AIIDE, and AAAI. Within the Pommerman community, Wes helps support more than 1,000 community members, develops and maintains the platform, and works with collaborators to produce research and presentations.
His entrepreneurial work has allowed him to be a guest lecturer, coach/mentor to startup founders, and a judge at startup focused events. Throughout his startup career, he has won 4 startup competitions helping him fund his companies.
In his free time, he enjoys hacking on robots and hardware, traveling, hiking, and cooking.