Lee Packham is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building cloud-native systems and gaming platforms, currently leading engineering at Green Man Gaming from London. He blends hands-on infrastructure engineering with executive strategy, having held senior roles at AWS (Solutions Architect and Developer Advocate), DoiT International, and multiple leadership positions across the games and retail sectors. A co-founder of Green Man Gaming, he remains an active open-source contributor to prominent projects such as the AWS CDK and awslabs/ssosync, where he’s added EC2 instance types, Lambda runtimes, SQS permission helpers, and Lambda deployment support—practical contributions that reflect deep cloud expertise. His background spans product, ops, and developer advocacy, enabling him to translate developer needs into scalable, secure architecture. Unusually for a CTO, he also pursued a Master’s in Advanced Cyber Security while remaining active in engineering, underscoring a commitment to secure-by-design systems.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computing, Computing at Chichester College
St. Andrew's C. of E. High School
Master's degree Advanced Cyber Security, Master's degree Advanced Cyber Security at King's College London
Populate AWS SSO directly with your G Suite users and groups using either a CLI or AWS Lambda
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 2 pushes in 8 days
Contributions summary:Lee contributed significantly to the project by implementing features related to interacting with AWS services, including AWS SSO. They wrote unit tests using Go's testing framework and the mock library. Furthermore, the user implemented support for AWS Lambda deployments by setting up the necessary configurations and integrating with AWS Secrets Manager. They also added versioning to the project.
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 26 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by adding features and addressing infrastructure-related issues. They implemented new instance types within the EC2 module and integrated the Maven wrapper into the Java template. Furthermore, the user added methods for granting permissions to SQS queues, enhancing the framework's functionality for managing AWS resources. The user also added the Python 3.7 runtime to the lambda module and corrected Windows Server SSM entries.
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Lee Packham - Chief Technology Officer at Green Man Gaming