Summary
Alex Lee is a software engineer based in New York with a hands-on track record building backend systems and automation tools over an 11-year career arc and two years focused on full-stack programming. At Twiddle he improved storage reliability and throughput with AWS S3, built RESTful integrations between Node.js and Python, and used web scraping to boost data accuracy for analytics pipelines. He built a FastAPI-powered social-app-style API from scratch and practices in areas like web crawling, reverse engineering, blockchain, and game hacking, reflecting a curiosity for low-level and adversarial problems as well as conventional backend work. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript, and DevOps tooling, Alex blends production-minded engineering with a penchant for automation and tooling that reduces runtime and team friction. He pairs a mechanical engineering background with practical experience debugging hardware-software systems, which informs his systematic approach to reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York
English, Chinese