Summary
Theodore Lee is a senior software engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and consumer-facing IoT platforms. He co-founded multiple startups including Let's Robot and RunMyRobot, and developed an IoT social network that gained attention on Hacker News and Reddit, demonstrating both product instincts and community uptake. At ShipHawk and Cloudcade he led backend engineering efforts—optimizing search with ElasticSearch, implementing packing algorithms, and improving caching and concurrency for high-throughput services. His background includes NLP and clinical informatics work at Kaiser Permanente, contributing to published research and systems that saved millions by automating ICD code detection. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he blends hands-on engineering, startup leadership, and a taste for creative problem solving (he once painted a giant office mural), making him adept at shipping practical, user-focused systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computational Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computational Physics at University of California, Irvine