Rob Lee
Principal Data Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Lee is a Principal Data Platform Engineer based in Portland with 14 years of experience building production-grade data services, Kubernetes platforms, and automated pipelines—primarily in Python. He has progressed through senior engineering and lead roles at New Relic and now drives platform strategy and execution at LegalZoom, blending hands-on development with platform architecture. Rob’s background includes data analysis, NLP, and Linux administration, and he contributes to open-source tooling such as the widely used New Relic Ruby Agent where he improved API interactions and test coverage. Known for thriving in fast-paced agile teams, he pairs a designer’s attention to detail from earlier career work with a pragmatic, reliability-focused approach to data engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) American Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) American Studies at University of California, BerkeleyAssociate's degree History, Associate's degree History at Berkeley City College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
agent10
api10
apm-agent10
api-design10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:153 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the New Relic Ruby Agent, focusing on enhancements and maintenance of the agent's core functionality. Their work included version updates, particularly for the gemspec, and modifications to the agent's interaction with the New Relic service API, including error and transaction data handling. The user also implemented updates to the pipe service and added test cases for that service.
newrelicrubyagentapm-agent
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