Lee Briggs
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLee Briggs is a seasoned cloud and infrastructure engineer with nearly 15 years of experience specializing in infrastructure automation, developer tools, and cloud engineering, now based in Seattle. As a solutions engineer at Pulumi and contributor to core projects like pulumi/pulumi and pulumi-aws, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—improving reliability, CI/CD, and provider code—with the customer-facing skills to translate complex technical ideas into clear, actionable solutions. His background in site reliability and systems administration across companies from Yelp to Apptio gives him deep, practical knowledge of the protocols and operational patterns that underpin modern cloud systems. Lee enjoys building communities and turning users into customers, and he has a knack for simplifying thorny infrastructure problems while adding resilience through pragmatic engineering (for example, adding retry/timeouts and integration tests to improve real-world reliability).
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computing, First Class Honour, Bachelor's Degree, Computing, First Class Honour at De Montfort University
English
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Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
cloud-computing10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
cicd10
pulumi10
gcp10
automation10
infrastructure10
go10
automation-testing10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/examples
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Infrastructure, containers, and serverless apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes... all deployed with Pulumi
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 21 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lee focused on creating and updating examples within the Pulumi examples repository. They added new examples for secret providers, covering AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Vault. Their work included implementing infrastructure as code using Pulumi, specifically targeting cloud resources such as S3 buckets, storage accounts, and GKE clusters, and integrating with Kubernetes. Additionally, they updated dependencies across multiple examples.
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pulumi/pulumi
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:62 reviews, 220 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily focused on improving the Pulumi backend and its related infrastructure. Their contributions included refactoring code to correctly suppress output in git-diff, modifying error messages for clarity, and optimizing stack references by ordering secret outputs. Furthermore, the user enhanced the system's reliability by implementing retry mechanisms for bucket writes in the filestate backend and setting timeouts. The user also contributed to the integration tests for gcp and azure.
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