Simon St Laurent
Senior Content Manager - LinkedIn Learning at Self
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSimon St. Laurent is an experienced technical author and content leader with over two decades of shaping how people learn about web development, programming languages, and developer tools. Based in Ithaca, New York, he has written books and created learning content on topics from XML to Erlang, Elixir, Ruby, and modern AI-driven coding tools. At O'Reilly he built and curated major publishing and conference programs for web and open source communities, and at LinkedIn Learning he designed and scaled video curricula and recruited instructors to deliver practical, focused training. He combines hands-on content creation—writing examples, coding small utilities, and maintaining his own site—with strategic program management, roadmap design, and speaker development. Known for smoothing the learning curve, Simon blends editorial rigor with technical fluency to turn complex topics into accessible narratives. His background in history and philosophy gives his technical communication an unusually clear, structured perspective that helps learners connect ideas across disciplines.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), History, Bachelor of Arts (BA), History at Swarthmore College
Github Skills (14)
javascript10
twitter10
prototypes10
async10
closures9
membership9
elixir8
gleam8
lists7
erlang7
data-analysis2
visualization2
visualizations2
data-visualization1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simonstl/erlang-simple-string
Dec 2012 - Jun 2021
A wrapper library that attempts to make Erlang's string and lists modules seem coherent to beginners.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 8 years 6 months
coherentgleamerlangstringlists
simonstl/introducing-elixir
May 2013 - Sep 2014
Example code from Introducing Elixir.
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
elixir
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