Jeff Strauss
Global Lead For Developer Relations, Chef And INFRA
Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Strauss is a technology executive and attorney who blends over a decade of hands-on software and cloud consulting with strategic leadership in developer relations and community building. As Global Lead for Developer Relations at Progress and former Director of Community at Accenture/Headspring, he specializes in growing open source communities and driving infrastructure automation adoption across cloud, edge, and on-prem environments. Comfortable briefing C-suite stakeholders or presenting to developer audiences, he has served as a Microsoft MVP, .NET Foundation director, international speaker, and organizer of major regional developer conferences. His uncommon combination of legal training and deep technical practice helps him navigate compliance, governance, and go-to-market dynamics while amplifying contributor-led innovation.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Psychology, B.S. Psychology at Duke UniversityJ.D. Law, J.D. Law at Washington University in St. Louis School of LawGrades K through 12, Grades K through 12 at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS)
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Github Skills (24)
infrastructure10
foundation9
dotnet9
csharp9
devops9
ansible9
automation9
scale9
chef-infra9
kubernetes8
defaults7
pushpin6
combobox6
autoplay6
entity-framework6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jstrauss/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
jstrauss/dotfiles-windows
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:16 pushes in 18 days
windowspowershelldotfilesbuilt-indefaults
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