Mike Lee is a veteran Apple-platform engineer and community builder with over 18 years of professional experience and a 12-year track record leading teams, products, and developer communities. As founder and Mayor of Appsterdam and former Head of Engineering at PlanBlue, he blends hands-on technical depth with people-first leadership, mentoring teams to become stronger after each project. He has shipped major consumer and retail apps at Apple and startups, co-founded Tapulous, and played key engineering roles at award-winning teams like Delicious Monster. Known for exceptional debugging skills and a high-energy, focused work style, he thrives on solving hard problems while keeping projects engaging. Based in Bremen and fluent in contract and permanent roles, he combines freelance agility with enterprise-grade architecture and product experience. He also brings an unconventional background—journalism and pre-med studies—that sharpens his communication and analytical instincts.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism, pre-med, Journalism, pre-med at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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