Kent Lee
Principal Software Engineer Architect At Cray HPE at Nelson Dairy Consultants
Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKent Lee is a Principal Software Engineer and Architect at HPE/Cray with over three decades of engineering and academic experience, currently shaping the DragonHPC project for high-performance computing. He blends hands-on systems design and software architecture with deep teaching and authorship credentials as an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science who wrote three textbooks on Python, data structures, and programming languages. Kent brings a rare mix of production-grade enterprise work (from IBM AS/400 to HPE) and applied software for niche industries, including a long-running VB.NET/MSSQL rationing tool used daily by dairy consultants. His technical breadth spans Python, Java, C++, functional languages and VM/interpreter design, and he frequently bridges research ideas into practical HPC and data-science tooling. Based in Bloomington, MN, he is known for translating complex language and runtime concepts into usable systems and educational artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Graduate Program, Computer Science Graduate Program at University of MinnesotaBA Computer Science/Mathematics, BA Computer Science/Mathematics at Luther CollegePhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (23)
cap9
c-library8
serialization8
high-performance7
protobuf7
data-structures7
cpp7
macos6
jit6
proto6
rpc6
windows6
linux6
python6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kentdlee/CS2Plus
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Data Structures and Algorithms with Python Website
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
data-structurespythonalgorithms-and-data-structures
kentdlee/GenComp
Mar 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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