Lee Pender
Managing Member at Thought Driven Development
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Pender is a pragmatic software leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and running a bespoke development shop in New York. He blends full-stack engineering (Rails, React, TypeScript, Elixir, Go) with product and systems design, having driven major migrations, data unification efforts, and fault-tolerant microservices for clients from IBM to academia. As Managing Member of Thought Driven Development he handles client strategy, contracting, hiring, and mentorship, and has repeatedly accelerated developer velocity and cut operational costs through pragmatic tooling and architecture changes. Notable wins include a 10x reduction in DSAR resolution time, unifying blog taxonomies to 100% via custom data transformations, and a zero-downtime e-commerce migration that recovered significant revenue. He brings a mix of entrepreneurial grit and technical depth, comfortable switching hats from hands-on coding to technical leadership. Colleagues know him for shipping reliable systems quickly and for an unapologetically adaptive mindset.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Science in Society, BS, Science in Society at Wesleyan UniversityBronx High School of Science
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
qunit10
inferno10
reactive-programming10
rails-app10
nodejs10
mongodb10
herokuapp10
ruby10
gulp10
bun10
build-system10
splashscreen10
rpc10
tdd10
protractor10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
thought-driven/bummr
Jul 2015 - Jun 2024
Update your gems in separate commits. Identify any that fail your build.
Contributions:78 PRs, 146 pushes, 74 branches in 9 years
commitsfailseparateupdategems
lpender/pull-favors
Apr 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 4 months
beautifierrailsrubyrspecpull-request
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