David Lee
Vice President Of Engineering, UCaaS at Sangoma
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lee is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years designing and operating scalable UCaaS and telephony platforms, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering for Switchvox Cloud and related products. He combines hands-on expertise in cloud automation (AWS, Ansible, Docker), telecom stacks (Asterisk, SCF) and full lifecycle delivery with a talent for mentorship, process improvement, and incident postmortems. Known for pragmatic architecture and a preference for small, talented teams, he has driven major reliability wins—like an automated DR recovery that beat RTO targets by two hours—and sped deployments from 30+ minutes to under five through containerization and CI/CD. An active contributor to the Ansible project, he has added cloud integrations such as Amazon ECR support, reflecting a strong DevOps and infrastructure automation background. Based in Huntsville, he pairs a deep systems-level skillset (C/C++, Java, Python, Node.js) with disciplined leadership that advances both product and team maturity.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Engineering, M.S., Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (30)
python10
scripting10
bash10
scala10
aws10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
shell10
java9
sbt9
docker9
devops9
automation9
functional-programming9
macos9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Aug 2015 - Aug 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 43 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Ansible automation platform. They addressed issues related to timeout configurations in the SSH connection plugin and corrected documentation errors regarding group separators and module examples. Additionally, the user added support for Amazon ECR, including a new module for managing ECR repositories and policies. These contributions show a focus on infrastructure automation and cloud integration.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
building5/appdirsjs
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
JavaScript library for determining appropriate platform-specific directories (port of Python appdirs)
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 9 months
javascript-librarypythonplatform-specificjavascriptappdirs
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