Summary
Tobi Lehman is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of professional experience and over nine years focused on systems engineering in Go, Java, Python, and Ruby. He has a proven track record building infrastructure and network tooling—most notably architecting an internal plan runner that reduced memory usage by 30% in three months and creating reproducible-build and access tools that streamlined operations. Tobi’s background spans high-scale environments at Perforce, Amazon/AWS Elemental, Apple, and Workday, giving him deep experience in distributed systems and production reliability. Trained as a mathematician (B.Sc.), he brings analytical rigor to software design and a penchant for elegant, verifiable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances hands-on coding with system-level architecture and tooling that pays dividends across teams.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics at Portland State University