Brian Lee
VP Of Engineering at Reality Defender (YC W22)
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Lee is a VP of Engineering with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, auto-scaling AI services and custom audio/video transmission systems from mobile devices. He has progressed from individual contributor roles to senior engineering leadership—most recently leading engineering at Nellis Auction and advising YC-backed Reality Defender—bringing a blend of technical depth and people management. Brian is comfortable designing systems at scale, shipping production-ready distributed architectures, and stepping into product-facing technical strategy. He pairs a strong foundational computer science background (BS in Math & CS; MS in CS from Vanderbilt) with a startup mindset cultivated across small teams and AI-focused companies. Colleagues often follow his lead, reflecting both his technical credibility and his ability to grow high-performing engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Nevada-Las VegasMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (107)
dependency-management10
postgresql10
python10
databases10
pip10
firebase10
sql-query10
javascript10
python-packaging10
sql10
orm-library10
database10
dependency-manager10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brian-dlee/personal-website
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
brian-dlee/smuggler
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Smuggler large environment variables into your Vercel deployment
Contributions:11 releases, 34 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
environment-variablessslcloudsqlprismadeployment
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