Benjamin Lee
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Lee is a Senior Software Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building scalable, performance-focused systems across frontend and backend stacks. He has shipped production services at Apple and Zendesk, contributing to high-throughput Kafka consumers, GeoDNS multi-region migrations, and RxJava/Golang worker systems while also owning operational responsibilities like SOC 2 audits and bug-bounty remediations. On the frontend he has deep React expertise—improving i18n, HMR and webpack/babel configs in a well-known react-boilerplate repository—and earlier roles show a strong track record in server-side rendering, real-time streaming, and containerized service migrations. Comfortable bridging product, security and SRE concerns, he pairs hands-on coding with cross-team collaboration and mentorship, and has a Summa Cum Laude economics degree from Singapore Management University that complements his pragmatic, data-informed approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Economics), Economics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (Economics), Economics, Summa Cum Laude at Singapore Management University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
i18n-js10
javascript10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
react10
webpacker9
babel-core9
webpack9
babel69
babeljs9
redux8
styled-components7
html6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate
May 2016 - Jul 2016
🔥 A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 20 comments, 2 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on internationalization (i18n) and localization aspects of the React application. They implemented locale loading, added polyfills for Intl, and created/modified files related to translations, including the extraction and management of message files. The user also worked on hot module replacement (HMR) for language files and made adjustments to the application's entry points and configuration to support these changes. Furthermore, they updated the base configuration, including webpack and babel settings.
redux-sagawebpack4react-routerreactjsfire
teamlittlelives/angular-noty
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 tags in 4 months
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