Michelle Lee
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Lee is a software engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building reliable, observable infrastructure and developer-facing tooling. Currently at Datadog and formerly at Google, she has driven service mesh product roadmap and designed lifecycle management and multi-zone failover features that enabled zero-downtime upgrades and disaster recovery. She pairs systems-level engineering (Envoy, Istio, service mesh) with hands-on product delivery, onboarding and cross-team collaboration, and has a track record of shipping practical integrations and SDKs. Outside core engineering she teaches programming, mentors teammates, and applies a research-minded curiosity to neurology and networking. Her background spans startups to large cloud platforms and includes measurable product impact—like simplifying user flows to boost engagement and designing tooling that improves operator experience. Growing slowly on GitHub, she blends steady learning with consistent, production-grade contributions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Minerva UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampFoundation degree, Accounting, Foundation degree, Accounting at Sunway College
English, Chinese, Malay
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
hugo10
terraform-provider10
terraform10
datadog10
documentation10
kubernetes9
anki9
security9
kotlin9
api-management9
proxies9
consul9
microservices9
istio8
fault-injection8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
michlee1337/panorama
Sep 2020 - Mar 2026
Learn concepts at different levels of abstraction and explore relationships between them.
Contributions:47 PRs, 118 pushes, 48 branches in 5 years 6 months
exploreprogressive-enhancementlevelszeplinjava
IngridFeng/team-40-codeu
May 2019 - Aug 2019
Summer 2019 Google CodeU Team 40 Projects
Contributions:148 commits, 33 PRs, 84 pushes in 2 months
pythonsummer
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