Evan Lee
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Lee is a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building cloud-native, DevOps-driven systems and full‑stack applications, currently shaping deployment and infrastructure at Shopify. He brings deep hands‑on experience with CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, and RESTful APIs—having owned a TR-069-based configuration API and driven automation and testing across unit to smoke levels in teams without dedicated QA. Evan has migrated and operated services on OpenStack and AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB) and improved deployment tooling in notable open-source projects like Shopify/shipit-engine. Comfortable across front-end GUIs and back-end systems, he blends operational rigor with product-focused engineering and a track record of refactoring and configuration-management improvements. Based in Boston, he pairs an MEng in Computer Science with practical leadership in cross-functional DevOps environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Florida State UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
deploying10
yaml10
ruby10
continuous-integration9
rails8
ruby-rails8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shipit-engine
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Deployment coordination
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Evan focused on enhancing the deployment process and configuration management within the Shipit-engine. They implemented features to serialize specific attributes, improved the handling of bare Shipit configuration files, and refactored the codebase. These changes included modifications to the deploy specifications and tests. The user also addressed an issue related to the loading of configuration files.
continuous-deploymentdeploymentcoordinationdockercontinuous-delivery
Archetypically/cryptography-game
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 12 pushes, 5 tags in 1 year 2 months
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