Lesley Brownlee
Senior Software Engineer at Elfster
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLesley Brownlee is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ottawa with 11 years of experience building backend systems and APIs, primarily in Python. They have shipped production services across startups and scale environments—from founding-team work on Imzy to moderation and marketplace features at reddit and API-led products at FarmLead. Lesley brings strong expertise in Python web frameworks, SQL-based data stores, AWS deployments, and integrating external SaaS like Zendesk, and has introduced TDD practices to improve release quality. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, they combine hands-on coding with hiring, onboarding, and cross-team product collaboration. An often-overlooked strength is their history of working on community and commerce features (redditgifts/Marketplace, moderation tooling), showing a practical focus on user experience and site administration as well as core engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
Github Skills (10)
web-development10
api10
reddit10
web-application10
webapp10
python10
apidoc10
zendesk8
database-design7
javascript5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Lesley primarily contributed to back-end functionalities within the Reddit codebase. Their work includes modifying API controllers for user moderation, adding functionality for takedown requests (DMCA), and implementing features related to subreddit banning, showing proficiency in Python and web application development. They also integrated a Zendesk ticket provider. The changes impact user moderation, content management, and potentially external support systems, indicating a focus on site administration and user experience enhancements.
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weffey/ut_demo
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 month
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