Lee Skillen
Co-Founder Chief Architect at Cloudsmith
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarLee Skillen is Co-Founder and Chief Architect with 11 years of experience, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and leading architecture at Cloudsmith since 2016. A hands-on engineering leader and self-described "Chief Code Monkey," he blends back-end development and DevOps to build reliable, production-ready systems. He’s an active open-source contributor—notably to dj-stripe—where he improved Stripe webhook/event handling, admin reprocessing, testing, and build tooling, highlighting a focus on robustness and developer experience. Known as a tinkerer, he turns integration complexity into maintainable solutions that scale for teams and services.
12 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
billing10
python10
stripe10
django10
webhooks10
testing10
payment10
django210
automation9
fintech9
automations9
ci-cd8
git8
devops8
dart6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dj-stripe/dj-stripe
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
dj-stripe automatically syncs your Stripe Data to your local database as pre-implemented Django Models allowing you to use the Django ORM, in your code, to work with the data making it easier and faster.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:64 commits, 23 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of dj-stripe, adding support for event subtype handlers, refining webhook handling, and improving the processing of Stripe events. They also worked on improving the test suite and implementing admin features to reprocess webhook events. Furthermore, they modified the build and test process, demonstrating DevOps skills by updating the runtests.py script and migrating flake8 exclusions.
stripepythondjangolocal-databaseorm
cloudsmith-io/dj-stripe
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Django + Stripe Made Easy
Contributions:93 pushes, 47 branches in 1 year 9 months
djangostripedjango-stripe
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