Alexandra Lee
Principal Engineer - API Gateway
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandra Lee is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 9 years of experience designing and scaling cloud services, currently leading API Gateway engineering at AWS. Her background spans IoT, web performance, and embedded systems, reflecting a rare blend of backend architecture and robotics-oriented academic interests in localization and computer vision. She advanced through multiple senior engineering roles at AWS, delivering production-grade services that bridge device-level constraints with large-scale cloud APIs. Alexandra pairs strong systems thinking with an eye for performance optimization, a skill honed earlier on Amazon’s Web Performance team. Off the clock she’s a self-proclaimed “Click-Clack Enthusiast,” hinting at a meticulous, detail-oriented approach to tools and craft. With degrees from UPenn and an MS in CS from Harvard, she combines rigorous academic training with practical, impact-driven engineering.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (3)
responsive5
javascript4
iot1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xleelz/xleelz.github.io
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 11 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
DodgeStores/asana
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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