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Ian Wesley-Smith

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Ian Wesley-smith

Over a two-month period, contributed backend and API development work to the bluesky-social/atproto repository, focusing on enhancing recommendation analytics and user personalization. Built and integrated a recId field into suggestion API endpoints and the SuggestedUsersSkeleton, enabling unique tracking of recommendations and supporting end-to-end event submission. Updated TypeScript client types, backend schemas, and lexicon definitions to ensure consistent propagation of recId across services. Maintained backward compatibility by reverting changes when necessary, minimizing disruption for downstream clients. Collaborated cross-functionally to share knowledge and uphold code quality, leveraging TypeScript and API design expertise to improve analytics reliability and future personalization capabilities.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

2Total
Bugs
0
Commits
2
Features
2
Lines of code
113
Activity Months2

Work History

January 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly performance: Delivered enhancements to the user recommendation flow in bluesky-social/atproto by adding recId support to the SuggestedUsersSkeleton and related presentation/getSuggestedUsers paths, establishing a foundation for more precise personalization and downstream analytics. This work included codegen updates to propagate recId safely across API surfaces and a stabilization step to maintain backward compatibility by reverting an earlier change, minimizing downstream disruption.

January 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 focused on strengthening recommendation analytics by delivering recId tracking across the suggestion APIs. The core feature enables a unique identifier for recommendations and event submissions, with API client types and lexicon definitions updated across affected packages. This work improves analytics reliability, personalization pipelines, and cross-service data consistency; no major bugs fixed this month.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness90.0%
Maintainability90.0%
Architecture90.0%
Performance90.0%
AI Usage30.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

TypeScript

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentLexicon DefinitionsTypeScript

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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bluesky-social/atproto

Jan 2025 Jan 2026
2 Months active

Languages Used

TypeScript

Technical Skills

API DevelopmentLexicon DefinitionsTypeScriptBackend Development