Jesse Heitler
Contributor Founder at Ignition Works
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJesse Heitler is a transformation-oriented software leader and founder with 15 years of experience building product-led teams and accelerating digital delivery in large enterprises and startups. Based in London, he founded Ignition Works to blend product development, consulting, and shared-equity incentives that remove organisational friction for enterprise software teams. He has led transformation programs at Santander and Pivotal, combining hands-on engineering, agile practices, and executive advising to turn ideas into production rapidly. Jesse’s background spans founding startups (CEO/CTO roles), scaling engineering teams, and shipping platform and PaaS solutions while keeping developer productivity central. Known for leading through listening and clear communication, he excels at finding unconventional, pragmatic solutions that unblock delivery. A Yale-trained computer scientist, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep operational experience in continuous delivery and platform operations.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (7)
pygame7
micropython4
python4
editor3
cli1
ci-server1
golang1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ZachGoldberg/django-chargify
Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 2 months
jesseh/django-stockandflow
Jun 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 8 months
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