James Lee
Co-founder at Stealth Startup
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lee is a Singapore-based software engineer and co-founder with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems and product-facing integrations. He bootstrapped a B2C AI SaaS to 1,000+ paying subscribers and six-figure ARR within a year, drawing on prior hands-on roles at Ninja Van where he led high-throughput Go microservices for webhook delivery and integrations with major e-commerce partners. His background includes engineering internships at Microsoft and Shopee where he delivered infrastructure-as-code, data tooling, and performance improvements that cut developer and query time substantially. Comfortable across cloud, observability, and microservice design, he combines product intuition with executional discipline—staying on as a contractor to ensure smooth handovers while launching his startup. He also has strong teaching and automation experience from NUS, where he reduced grading time by half, signaling an aptitude for operational efficiency and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Information Technology, Diploma in Information Technology at Nanyang PolytechnicBachelor of Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese
Github Skills (144)
postgresql10
bing-api10
swagger10
code-generation10
schema10
faker10
codegen10
sql10
golang10
orval10
database-migration10
database10
angular10
database-migrations10
open-api-v310
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jamesleeht/XamarinMarsHOL
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nus-cs2030/kelas
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020
Kelas is an autograder that wraps around Java Reflection API
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
javareflection-api
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