Tom Lee
Head Of Policy at Mapbox
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolTom Lee is Head of Policy at Mapbox with 17 years of experience blending product, engineering, and legal strategy to steward large-scale location data and privacy practices. He leads regulatory engagement, compliance, and telemetry-forensics—routinely moving from HAR file analysis and mitmdump investigations to Congressional testimony and export-control negotiations. Tom has driven product rollouts and pricing for mobile maps, led geocoding to commercial success, and earlier served as CTO at Sunlight Foundation where his team’s work helped enable passage of the DATA Act. He contributes to open-address efforts on GitHub, focusing on data pipelines and validation, reflecting a pragmatic data-engineering mindset beneath his policy remit. Based in Washington, DC, he pairs hands-on technical fluency (SQL, telemetry SDKs, on-device encryption) with government relations to anticipate regulatory shifts and translate them into product-safe outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (12)
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shell10
python10
scripting10
csv-parser10
data-engineering10
data-validation9
geocoding9
xml-parsing8
postgresql8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openaddresses/openaddresses
Oct 2014 - Nov 2017
A global repository of open address, building, and parcel data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:115 commits, 37 PRs, 41 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on data processing and validation within the context of address data. They made changes to a testing script (test/sources.js) to check data integrity, including checking for mandatory fields and supported data types. Additionally, the user added a script directory and implemented scripts for data preparation and transformation, including for Spanish and Austrian address data, using Python and shell scripts. This suggests a strong focus on data pipeline development and data quality assurance.
geodatadatageofencinggeocodingaddress
sbma44/us_nbi_osm_import
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 6 days
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