Nelson Lee
CEO And Founder at The General Consulting Company
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Lee is a founder, AI consultant, and software engineer based in Toronto who blends hands-on engineering with product-led company building. He founded The General Consulting Company to help operators adopt practical AI tools and previously led Haven Safe, whose Angie division was acquired by Victim Services Toronto in partnership with Toronto Police. Nelson shipped product and AI integrations at Shopify and built consumer fintech (Maple Budget), showing a pattern of turning user needs into shipped software across safety, finance, and commerce. A University of Toronto Computer Engineering graduate with minors in AI and Business, he’s an award-winning entrepreneur (Troost Difference Maker, 5T3) and alumni of NEXT36, 8VC Fellowship, and SHAD. Unusually for someone early in their career, he also served as a Governor on U of T’s Governing Council overseeing multi‑billion dollar stewardship, signaling comfort with both technical execution and institutional governance. Currently building in stealth, he focuses on practical AI adoption and workflow automation that produce measurable business outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Chinese, English, French
Github Skills (11)
hydrogen10
remix10
react9
shopify9
fitbit3
jetpack-compose1
tiles1
component-library1
wearos1
android1
watch1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AliAboelela123/Capstone-RAG
Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
This is our (Ali Aboelela, Nelson Lee, Kevin Sadigh) capstone project. It can be described generally as a web app which acts as wrapper for a fine tuned LLM. Its main goal is to take in pdf documents & user queries as input then output a response to said queries.
Contributions:6 reviews, 25 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 months
NelsonLee-Code/NelsonLee-Code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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