Christopher Lee
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Lee is a Seattle-based Sr Staff Software Engineer with more than two decades of experience designing and delivering scalable software. As a current Sr Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, he blends hands-on architecture with a passion for agile practices, rigorous testing, and maintaining healthy codebases. His career spans leadership roles at Juniper Square, CBRE, and Cozi, delivering Python-based services, data tooling, and cloud-native architectures across FastAPI, Django, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AWS. Beyond coding, he mentors teams, emphasizes shipping early and often, and prioritizes meaningful user outcomes and maintainable systems. He earned a BA in Creative Writing with a CS double major from Carnegie Mellon, a combination that informs his documentation, UX thinking, and storytelling around complex technical topics.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. in Creative Writing, double major in Computer Science, B.A. in Creative Writing, double major in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (72)
client-library9
wns9
elasticsearch-client9
django8
date-parser8
push-notifications8
raise8
configurator8
python8
parsing8
elastic8
python-datetime7
datetime7
elasticsearch7
sendgrid7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sirdodger/asciistations
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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