Shane Lee is a Principal Engineer based in Melbourne with over 20 years in software engineering and 11 years in senior leadership roles, currently shaping PEXA’s global engineering strategy and standards. He combines hands-on architecture and cloud-native experience—microservices, Kubernetes, AWS and CI/CD—with a strong track record of lifting engineering culture, mentoring large distributed teams and delivering resilient, high-performance systems. His career spans enterprise and public-sector systems through to consumer-facing API and voice-product work, including published Alexa skills and significant performance wins such as an Elasticsearch migration that cut geospatial response times dramatically. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often pairs deep technical design with people-focused leadership to turn complex requirements into scalable, production-ready outcomes. An Irish-born avid traveller and sports fan, he brings international perspective and curiosity to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Technological University Dublin
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at St. Mels College, Longford
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