Lee Riddell
Owner Operator
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Riddell is an entrepreneurial owner-operator based in Traverse City, Michigan, with eight years of experience building and scaling service-focused businesses while maintaining hands-on technical skills from prior software roles. He runs Ultra Commercial Cleaners and Traverse City Car Unlock, overseeing operations, logistics, client relationships, and quality assurance across large commercial contracts and 24/7 roadside services. His background includes full-stack development training and software engineering work, giving him a practical systems mindset that he applies to process optimization, route planning, and team training. Lee combines scientific rigor from a biochemistry degree and lab research with applied tech chops from BloomTech and Lambda School, enabling creative, data-informed solutions to operational problems. Unusually for an operator, he still codes and thinks like a developer—summed up by his GitHub ethos: "if you know you should, you probably should."
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science & Full-Stack Web Development, Computer Science & Full-Stack Web Development at BloomTechBachelor of Arts - BA Biochemistry, Bachelor of Arts - BA Biochemistry at Albion College
Github Skills (57)
javascript9
sprint9
rest-api8
bootstrap-ui8
api8
flexbox8
css8
preprocessing8
nodejs7
apl7
connected7
code-golf7
user-interface7
authentication7
server-side7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
odax/NoteeX-Full-Stack
May 2018 - Jan 2019
Front-End of full-stack note-taking app
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
note-taking-appreactnote-takingfull-stackredux
odax/study-card-x
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
(WIP) Built with react.js, study-card-x is a flashcard application designed to accelerate study speed with a "master what you have, add one card" technique.
Contributions:21 PRs, 49 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
reactbuilt-with-reactflashcardspeedflashcard-application
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