Nathan Lee
Staff Software Engineer at Code Drop IO
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Lee is a staff software engineer with 17 years of experience building and operating full-stack, distributed systems from the OS up, currently leading development at KBS in Edmonton. He has repeatedly improved deployment and observability—automating CI/CD pipelines, creating Kubernetes/Jenkins review-app workflows, and integrating Ruby on Rails APIs with Scala/Kafka microservices supporting 10,000+ daily users. His background spans embedded and SaaS products through to rich React front-ends and Electron/iPad integrations for utility-scale construction and lab systems, showing a knack for bridging domain expertise and developer ergonomics. Nathan often takes on rescue projects and legacy rewrites, turning high-debt codebases into maintainable, testable platforms under constrained environments. He pairs hands-on coding with practical infrastructure leadership, having managed teams, built automated deployment pipelines, and shipped hardware-connected Linux products. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that balances reliability, automation, and stakeholder-driven feature design.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Systems Technology, Diploma, Computer Systems Technology at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology)
Github Skills (42)
web-application10
scraper10
rails10
ruby10
javascript9
ghost9
mvc9
nodejs9
ruby-on-rails9
recurring-events9
recurring9
html9
activerecord9
journalism8
python8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
X0nic/chef-database_restore
May 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:89 commits in 7 months
X0nic/home-vim
Jan 2015 - Sep 2024
My vim home directory
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 9 months
neovimdirectoryvim
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