Lee Savoie is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a decade-plus career in embedded and systems software across defense and commercial sectors. Currently at Voltaiq, he brings leadership honed as an Engineering Team Lead at Thermopylae Sciences + Technology and senior engineering experience from Raytheon, pairing hands-on development with architectural guidance. His work spans backend systems, installation tooling and test hardening—illustrated by contributions to the high-profile google/earthenterprise open-source project fixing test-directory issues and improving install/uninstall scripts. Lee combines advanced academic training (PhD candidate in Computer Science at University of Arizona, MS and BS from UT Dallas) with practical delivery of robust, maintainable systems. He is comfortable navigating regulated environments and complex deployment scenarios, and he often focuses on making build/test/install processes more reliable. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who improves developer workflows while keeping production stability front and center.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Contributions:12 releases, 89 reviews, 282 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lee implemented a fix to prevent unit tests from running from the wrong directory by adding a directory check and a more robust regular expression check in the test script. They also cleaned up whitespace in a shell script used for installing the server. Finally, they contributed to a set of files related to installing and uninstalling the server, including modifications for removing Google Earth users and groups and adding parameters to control backup and user/group deletion.
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Lee Savoie - Principal Software Engineer at Voltaiq