Ben Leslie
CTO Co-Founder at Breakaway Consulting Pty. Ltd.
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolBen Leslie is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Apkudo with 19 years’ experience building and scaling software and platform engineering teams from research prototypes to commercial products. He combines hands-on engineering and executive leadership—previously VP of Engineering at Open Kernel Labs and Senior Research Engineer at National ICT Australia—while also running a consulting practice that helps organisations align technical strategy with delivery. Educated in computer engineering, cognitive science and business technology at UNSW, he brings an uncommon mix of technical rigor, human-centered thinking and commercial acumen. An active community builder who organised linux.conf.au, he blends open-source sensibilities with pragmatic product development.
19 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (132)
python10
static-analysis10
type-check10
stubs10
mypy10
rapid-prototyping10
microkernel10
type-checking10
static-typing10
stub10
type-annotations10
sel410
javascript9
rapid9
core-platform9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bennoleslie/binutils
Jan 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 10 months
bennoleslie/pyutil
Jan 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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