Lee Winder
Director, Software Engineering at Capital One
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLee Winder is a pragmatic, people-first software development manager with over 20 years of experience building and scaling engineering organisations and cloud-native platforms. He blends hands-on technical leadership—especially in event-driven microservices, AWS, and CI/CD—with strategic direction, having led multi-year platform modernisations and owned multi-million pound engineering budgets. Lee has a track record of founding and growing functions from small teams into high-performing, domain-aligned units while personally designing core architectures and deployment pipelines. He’s equally focused on people, having restructured early careers programmes, driven DEI initiatives, and improved retention through mentoring and inclusive culture design. His background spans consumer-facing gaming and regulated retail systems to enterprise banking, giving him a rare mix of product sensitivity and operational rigour. Based in Birmingham, he’s known for turning complex technical challenges into pragmatic, auditable solutions that directly map to business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PGCE in Secondary Education, PGCE in Secondary Education at Edge Hill UniversityBSc. Software Engineering, BSc. Software Engineering at University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (66)
file-validation10
javascript10
angular-module10
angular10
adjustment10
validation9
dialog9
drag9
reviewboard9
drag-and-drop9
react9
typescript9
aws-cloudformation9
nodejs9
extensible8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
leewinder/tslerp
Aug 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 55 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 4 months
typescriptdata-setssample-datatypescript-library
leewinder/ng2-dynamic-dialog
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:116 commits, 15 PRs, 125 pushes in 1 year 5 months
dialogextensibleangularcustom-componentssupporting
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