Les Leslie
Principal Developer at Wedgwood Web Works
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLes Leslie is a Principal Developer with a decade of professional software experience building Python-driven web and serverless applications, and runs Wedgwood Web Works from Bellingham, WA. He specializes in GCP, Flask/Starlette/FastAPI, progressive web apps and modern interaction patterns like HTMX, and is the creator of SplashStand. His open-source contributions include backend and MongoDB work on the well-known ChatterBot project, where he improved performance and conversation management. With a background in electronics and industrial control plus a University of Washington Python certification, he blends hardware-minded rigor with modern cloud-native development. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns production problems into maintainable, serverless solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Continuing Education - Python Certification, Python Programming, Professional Continuing Education - Python Certification, Python Programming at University of WashingtonAAS, Electronics Engineering, AAS, Electronics Engineering at North Seattle College
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Github Skills (8)
database-management10
mongodb10
python10
mongodb-database10
conversations9
conversation9
machine-learning7
pathlib6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gunthercox/ChatterBot
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 33 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Les primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the chatbot project, with a focus on MongoDB database integration. Their work involved modifying the MongoDB adapter to improve performance, including increasing the sort buffer size and setting feature compatibility versions. They also addressed bugs related to data retrieval and added functionality for conversation management. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by renaming variables and correcting code errors.
nlppythondialogconversationalbot
lesleslie/jinja2-async-environment
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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