Michael Lee
Director - Software Integrations
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lee is a seasoned software leader and director with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, shipping, and operating cloud-native systems, most recently leading multi-national teams building Azure-hosted software. He blends deep engineering skills—spanning .NET, microservices, Terraform, and CI/CD—with product and operational leadership, having driven migrations to AKS, major cost and performance optimizations, and robust integrations with industry partners like CDK, DealerTrack, Dominion, and Tekion. Michael has held CTO and DevOps director roles where he modernized legacy stacks, implemented secure configuration and secrets management, and introduced observability and automated alerts that reduced incident impact. He is experienced in hiring and scaling distributed teams, aligning OKRs across departments, and translating complex business processes into reliable, testable software. A practical problem-solver, he built tooling such as DMS mocks and unit-test scaffolding that materially cut maintenance overhead and accelerated QA cycles. Based in Birmingham, AL, he pairs systems-level architecture thinking with developer experience improvements to keep teams productive while meeting growth-focused product goals.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced High School Diploma, Math and Science, Advanced High School Diploma, Math and Science at Alabama School of Fine ArtsBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Auburn University
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Github Skills (65)
vanilla-javascript10
lazyload10
lazy-loading10
image10
javascript9
directives9
azure9
typescript9
postman8
gatsbyjs8
json8
golang7
microsoft-azure7
monitoring7
api7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
leemicw/michaelware-net-blog
Jun 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
leemicw/ImageMapResize
Jun 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 2 months
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