Matthias Lee
Engineering Fellow, Head Of Performance & Reliability at Corrie Health, MiCORE Study (Johns Hopkins Medicine)
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolMatthias A Lee is a Principal Software Engineer and Computer Science PhD with 14 years of experience building performant systems across eHealth, NoSQL, cloud computing, and GPU-accelerated software. He blends deep research sensibilities with hands-on engineering, contributing to open-source projects from embedded GSM/GPS IoT libraries to Python wrappers for OCR, where he improved installer reliability and usability. His work shows a knack for pragmatic fixes—bug hunting, I/O reliability, and code refactors—that improve maintainability and production robustness. Comfortable across stacks, he focuses on software performance and scalable infrastructure while also shipping device-level and full-stack tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex performance requirements into practical, well-tested solutions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of TechnologyFrankfurt International School
German, English
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Github Skills (24)
c-language10
python10
setuptools10
ocr10
packaging10
tess4j10
tesseractjs10
sys10
package10
tesseract10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
documentation9
arduino9
http8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MarcoMartines/GSM-GPRS-GPS-Shield
Jan 2014 - May 2015
GSM/GPRS & GPS Shield Library for modules using SIM900/SIM908
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily addressed bugs and code formatting issues related to a GSM/GPRS and GPS shield library. Their contributions involved fixing issues in network communication, specifically related to HTTP GET and POST requests by modifying line endings. They also made code formatting changes, standardized line endings, and refactored code within the library, likely to enhance code readability and maintainability. Additionally, the user corrected a bug in the SIM900::read() function, which impacted data retrieval from the GSM module.
garmingpxgsmgpsgps-tracking
madmaze/pytesseract
Jan 2014 - Feb 2017
A Python wrapper for Google Tesseract
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Python-tesseract wrapper. Their work included setting up the package for installation using setuptools, updating the README, and modifying the setup to address installation issues. They also added configuration options, updated documentation, and merged changes from other contributors. Furthermore, the user was involved in renaming the repository to match the package name, reflecting a focus on usability and project structure.
pythongooglepython-wrappertesseractbinder
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