Jessica Ledbetter
Engineering Manager at Akamai Technologies
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJessica Ledbetter is an engineering manager in San Jose with 15 years of software experience and over a decade building web applications across open source, government, gaming, and tech sectors. She combines hands-on full-stack skills in JavaScript, Java, C++, and Python with strong operational knowledge of databases (Oracle, Postgres) and multi-platform deployment (Linux, Mac, Windows). At companies like Akamai and Nominum she has led teams, run planning and stand-ups, and moved from product lead to technical lead roles while still pairing on code. A lifelong contributor to open-source projects and community organizations, she brings practical UX sensibility from front-end work and design tools as well as public-speaking leadership honed through Toastmasters. Notably, she pairs technical depth with customer-focused problem solving—favoring efficient, maintainable solutions over unnecessary complexity.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Information Technology, Master, Information Technology at Virginia TechBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Christopher Newport UniversityUnfinished, Computer Arts, Unfinished, Computer Arts at Thomas Nelson Community College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
django10
designer1
poster1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
jledbetter/git_scripts
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
developer-workflowconvenienceworkflow
p2pu/lernanta
Mar 2011 - Nov 2011
Platform for running open online courses.
Contributions:528 commits in 7 months
djangoonline-courses
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