Jason Lengstorf

@jlengstorf
Portland, OR
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Jason Lengstorf is the VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and the host of Learn With Jason, a live-streamed video show where he pair programs to learn something new in 90 minutes. As a keynote speaker and author, Jason focuses on building healthier teams through trust, curiosity, and play. He's trying his very best to follow his own advice. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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content creation,

speaking at events,

advising companies,

speaking on podcasts,

live streaming,

talking to journalists,

and speaking on twitter spaces.

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Sep 2018 - Present

Host, Learn With Jason

Mar 2021 - Present

VP of Developer Experience, Netlify

Oct 2019 - Mar 2021

Principal Developer Experience Engineer, Netlify

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I got quoted in a post on the SD Times — Why the web framework hype train is always moving

Creating content is a lot of work. I wrote up my own strategies for creating more content from the same amount of effort, along with what I’ve seen from brilliant folks like Cassidy Williams, Salma...

Every once in a while, you get lucky enough to work on a project that taps into everything you love. I led one of those projects at Netlify recently — and it goes live TODAY. Watch the new video on...

Sarah invited me onto Algolia’s Developer Experience podcast to talk about The Art of Teaching Developers. She asked great questions and I hope my answers are helpful to anyone looking to become a ...

On Teams & Leadership

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I wrote up some thoughts on LeadDev about choosing between a career path as an IC vs. going into engineering management that I wish I’d had when I was a senior dev wondering about next steps.

I was quoted in WorkLife. People are claiming there’s a developer shortage, but I argue that there are thousands of developers ready to work if companies would set up team structures that supported...

Taking real, fully disconnected time off is good for your health and for your team. But you have to ACTUALLY disconnect to get the benefits. I wrote a new post: Checking Slack and email during vaca...

Are we punishing our top performers? Posted on LeadDev I wrote an article about treating high performers on our team better, not burning people out, and building stronger teams instead of creating ...