Lee Collins
Senior Software Engineer at Enova International
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolLee Collins is a Chicago-based Senior Software Engineer and architect with over 25 years of experience and a recent 11-year track record focused on JVM ecosystems (Java, Groovy, Scala). He designs and implements highly distributed, multi-threaded systems and has migrated legacy enterprise apps to modern Spring Boot and REST architectures. Lee has worked across banks, healthcare, enterprise retail, and fintech, often serving as mentor, team lead, or chief architect and introducing technologies like SOLR, MongoDB, Drools, and Scala concurrency. He’s adept at turning monolithic Java/J2EE codebases into scalable services and has hands-on experience building parallel processing solutions with fork/join and GPars. A longtime pragmatist, he favors expressive JVM languages and practical tooling to reduce complexity while boosting performance and observability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at DePaul UniversityHigh School Diploma, Computer Software Engineering, High School Diploma, Computer Software Engineering at DunbarDiploma, Diploma at McCosh
English
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Github Skills (15)
java9
spring9
spring-boot9
rest9
spring-security7
embedded-jetty6
fold6
api6
higher-order-functions6
jetty6
scala6
springframework5
groovy3
opengl2
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
javaConductor/gserv
Oct 2014 - Sep 2019
GServ: Framework for SPAs and REST based services.
Contributions:10 releases, 161 commits, 72 pushes in 5 years
spasrest
javaConductor/tdg
Aug 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
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