Micah Lee
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMicah Lee is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and user-focused solutions across security, defense, and analytics domains. He has led feature design and delivery for Conjur Enterprise at CyberArk—driving a Kubernetes-native follower product and reducing support case volumes—then moved to Palo Alto Networks to continue solving hard security problems. Comfortable in Ruby, Go, C#, and Python, Micah pairs API and database expertise with hands-on container/runtime and orchestration skills (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, AWS). His open-source contributions to the notable Conjur secrets-management project show a focus on backend reliability and API ergonomics. Based in Greenville, SC, he combines systems-level architecture with a user-centered approach, often breaking complex problems into pragmatic, incremental deliveries.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Clemson UniversityMS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English
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Github Skills (16)
secret-management10
api10
postgresql10
sql10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
phonegap6
windows6
jupyterhub6
environment-variables6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cyberark/conjur
May 2018 - Jan 2023
CyberArk Conjur automatically secures secrets used by privileged users and machine identities
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 252 reviews, 394 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Micah's contributions primarily focused on improving the Conjur backend. They updated the Debian package to use a newer Ruby version, fixed deprecated SQL strings, and refactored database logic into models. The user also added new API endpoints for managing role memberships, and filtering and searching role members. This indicates a focus on API development and database interactions, likely within the core secrets management functionality.
cyberarksecret-managementsecret-distributionmachine-identitysecrets
GospelToolbox/Account
Oct 2016 - Apr 2022
Gospel Toolbox Account is the single sign-on identity provider for all Gospel Toolbox applications.
Contributions:52 PRs, 152 pushes, 40 branches in 5 years 6 months
identity-providersingle-sign-on
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