John Lee
Senior Software Engineer at Lithic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Lee is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack systems, site reliability improvements, and test automation from New York. He has led stability and product initiatives at Expensify and now drives engineering work at Lithic, pairing pragmatic SRE practices with feature delivery. His open-source contributions include strengthening test suites for Expensify’s Bedrock distributed database—work that improved reliability for active/active failover and WAN replication scenarios. Beyond paid roles, he’s the sole web developer for the high-impact Project For Awesome, demonstrating a talent for shipping meaningful projects under responsibility. Known for a wry sense of humor on GitHub, he combines meticulous testing discipline with a doer’s mentality that helps teams move fast without breaking production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Eagle High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
testing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Expensify/Bedrock
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
Rock solid distributed database specializing in active/active automatic failover and WAN replication
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:54 releases, 113 reviews, 88 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily involve enhancing and expanding the testing framework within the repository. They refactored test code to use substring matching, added new test cases, and improved the clarity of assertion messages. Further improvements included fixing broken tests and adding more comprehensive testing coverage. This work is crucial for ensuring the reliability and functionality of the distributed database system.
distributed-databasefailoverreplicationwan
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