Jon Lester
Chief Architect at Microsoft
Belmont, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Lester is a Chief Architect at Microsoft with nearly three decades of experience modernizing applications, transforming engineering practices, and designing high-scale distributed systems across cloud and AI domains. He combines hands-on engineering and scientific rigor with pragmatic, business-focused decision making to help enterprises and partners adopt resilient, cloud-native and AI-assisted development workflows. Jon has led product and platform teams in startups and enterprise settings long before “cloud-native” was mainstream, and now guides Customer Success initiatives that translate deep technical expertise into measurable business impact. Based in Belmont, NC, he pairs an MBA and a background in biology/ecology with a rare blend of systems engineering and product leadership that helps bridge technical strategy, developer experience, and operational excellence.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of North Carolina at CharlottePost Grad, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Post Grad, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Appalachian State UniversityBachelor's Degree, BS - Biology, Bachelor's Degree, BS - Biology at Belmont Abbey College
Github Skills (50)
azure-app-service10
app-service10
azure-ad-b2c10
architecture9
authentication9
prepare9
azure-functions9
landing-zone9
azure8
api8
azure-api8
reference-implementation8
azure-api-management8
tray-icon8
notifyicon8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chmitch/powerbi-sql-rbs
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:50 pushes in 4 months
jonlester/b2c-policy-helper
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Scripts to help with common B2C user flow and policy tasks
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
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