Lee Atchison
Field CTO at LinkedIn
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Atchison is a Field CTO and seasoned technology executive with 36 years of experience designing and operating high-demand SaaS and cloud-native systems. He specializes in scaling, availability, and cloud migration, helping organizations tame unwieldy applications through risk-based analysis, DevOps transformation, and opinionated architectural guidance. A recognized industry thought leader, Lee authored Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly), hosts podcasts, teaches on LinkedIn Learning, and frequently advises senior leadership on strategic product and reliability decisions. His career spans senior roles at Amazon (creator of Elastic Beanstalk) and New Relic, where he led migrations from monoliths to service-based architectures and promoted availability-focused engineering practices. Based in Seattle, he now combines advisory work, content creation, and executive roles (Field CTO at Files.com) to drive measurable modernization outcomes. Beyond public speaking and writing, Lee’s practical impact includes building teams and production systems from scratch and translating architectural theory into operational playbooks.
14 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (20)
sdk6
oauth5
authentication5
oauth2-client4
security4
relic4
authorization4
openid-connect4
auth4
jwt3
extensible3
openid3
golang3
ruby2
django-framework2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
leeatchison/leeatchison_com
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
leeatchison/atchisontechnology_com
Jul 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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