Lee Calcote
Founder at Layer5
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Calcote is a founder and cloud-native leader with 11+ years of engineering and product experience, currently building Layer5 (Meshery, Nighthawk) and launching Kanvas while hiring for Layer5. He blends hands-on front-end and back-end development—contributing UI improvements to meshery.io and evolving protocol buffers for service-mesh performance—with strategic influence as a CNCF TAG Chair and former technology lead at Cisco and Seagate. Lee has a strong track record creating industry standards (SMPS, SMI) and award-winning open-source communities that accelerate cloud-native adoption. Based in Austin, he pairs enterprise-scale delivery and team-building with deep technical authorship, and quietly drives interoperability work that many cloud-native projects rely on.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of South DakotaBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
English, American Sign Language, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
25reputation
10kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (21)
service-mesh10
protocol-buffers10
css10
go10
jekyll10
html10
javascript9
ui-design9
cloud-native9
grpc8
uid8
front-end-development8
istio6
kubernetes-helm6
kubectl6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
meshery/meshery.io
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Website for Meshery
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:478 reviews, 780 commits, 636 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:The user, leecalcote, primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Meshery website. Their commits focused on modifying the website's index and layout files to update the content and appearance, including changes to the hero section, adding a subscription form, and implementing a community section. The user also implemented UI changes that enhanced the site's look and feel.
ui-developmentmulti-mesh-managerfront-endcloud-native-managementdocker
meshery-extensions/helm-kanvas-snapshot
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 23 reviews, 31 PRs in 6 months
architecture-diagramhelmkanvaskuberneteslayer5
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