Wesley Hartman is the Founder of Automata Practice Development. Automata is a managed automation service provider that specializes in building automations to alleviate pain points of the accountant. Additionally, he will consult on a firm's processes and tools to help them implement and streamline their automation initiatives. He will consult with vendors on the direction their applications should take and how their application can be integrated with other applications in the accounting space. He occupies a unique position by being a computer engineer who worked on autonomous vehicles and worked for an accounting firm managing their technology. 

Before starting a software development business, he was the Director of Technology at public accounting firm for 15 years and has worked with information technology within the financial services industry since 2005. Wesley's strengths include introducing technology into a firm's existing processes to make them more efficient and analyzing data patterns to streamline the movement of information in systems. One of his focuses has been to implement automation to create data bridges between software packages. Wesley earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from California State University, Northridge. He is married and enjoys hosting a yearly Halloween haunted house for his local community, as well as training in Aikido.