Summary
Kenneth Lee is a senior backend software engineer with 17 years’ experience building and migrating APIs, primarily in Ruby, Elixir and Go, and a strong fluency across DevOps, architecture and frontend concerns. He currently works contractually for the UK Department for Education and Track24 while running his own company, MOOCLOUD, reflecting a blend of public-sector and product-focused delivery. His background includes porting monolithic Ruby APIs to Elixir, building LiveView-powered interfaces, and shipping services on Azure and PostgreSQL at scale. Comfortable influencing UX and supporting frontend teams, he also brings hands-on experience as a former CTO and lead engineer, which informs pragmatic decisions around product, process and operational reliability. An understated strength is his ability to move between code and strategy—translating business needs into maintainable architecture while still shipping production-quality features.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours Software Engineering, BSc Honours Software Engineering at Durham University