Preston Lee
Founder, Owner at Freelance to Founder
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Lee is a founder and digital entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building services for freelancers, creatives, and agency-builders through Millo Media and SolidGigs. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he blends hands-on web development (including maintenance contributions to open-source Ruby tooling like the railroady UML generator) with content strategy and product leadership. He has a strong background in marketing and online education—having taught online at BYU-Idaho and co-hosted the Freelance to Founder podcast—so he translates technical work into practical business outcomes. Known for rolling up his sleeves to fix bugs and keep projects healthy, Preston pairs creative storytelling with operational rigor to help independent professionals grow.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-IdahoMadison High School
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (7)
rails10
graphviz10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
documentation7
dependency-management7
git5
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
preston/railroady
May 2014 - Jul 2021
Ruby on Rails model and controller UML class diagram generator. (`brew/port/apt-get install graphviz` before use!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 48 commits, 25 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Preston primarily worked on improving the `railroady` project, a Ruby on Rails UML class diagram generator. Their contributions included updating the version number, fixing a Windows-related issue, and incorporating fixes from pull requests, indicating a focus on maintenance and bug resolution. Additionally, the user updated project dependencies and documentation, showing involvement in project upkeep and ensuring the project's continued functionality. Further work on file extraction demonstrates involvement in core project functionality.
apt-getclass-diagramgraphvizruby-on-railsuml
preston/knartwork
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 73 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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