Les Jackson
Staff Developer Advocate EMEA
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLes Jackson is a pragmatic Staff Developer Advocate based in London with over a decade of experience turning complex problems into practical API, DevOps and CI/CD solutions. He has led developer relations globally, matured DocOps and developer portal practices, and doubled as a technical product owner to drive enterprise adoption of API platforms. A straight-talking, diplomatic leader, Les has a track record of building high-performing teams and communities in agile environments—uplifting team maturity and introducing coding guidelines that let non-developers safely ship production code. He combines hands-on experience from operator and consulting roles to platform advocacy, and publishes practical learning resources and videos (e.g., BinaryThistle on YouTube and dotnetplaybook.com) that reflect his focus on real-world, not just theoretical, outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science with Law, B.Sc., Computer Science with Law at University of Strathclyde
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
rest-api8
api8
api-client8
csharp7
api-platform7
bearer-authentication7
rest7
dapr7
ocelot7
graphql6
curl6
grpc6
http-client6
websocket6
dotnet6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
binarythistle/Complete-ASP.NET-Core-API-Tutorial-3rd-Edition-Net-Core-3.1
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
binarythistle/CommandAPI
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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