Vanessa Lee
Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVanessa Lee is a senior software engineer and leadership-focused technologist with 25+ years of professional experience and over a decade leading teams in Elixir and the Erlang ecosystem. She pairs hands-on expertise in functional, concurrent systems and data services with a track record of building resilient, production-grade platforms using Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. As an engineering manager and instructor, she has recruited, coached, and grown engineers from junior to staff, and delivered measurable impact such as a cost-saving author disambiguation service. Known for servant leadership and cross-functional collaboration, she consistently drives operational excellence, KPIs, and ownership culture across product and executive stakeholders. Based in Austin, she blends deep technical critique with people-first leadership and an unusual academic background in critical theory that informs her communication and decision-making style.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Critical Theory and Analysis, Master's Degree Critical Theory and Analysis at Illinois State UniversityBachelor's Degree English Psychology and Theater, Bachelor's Degree English Psychology and Theater at Eastern Michigan University
Github Skills (24)
hamming-distance10
string-matching10
matching10
levenshtein-distance10
jaro-winkler10
metaphone10
string-comparison10
disambiguation10
fuzzy9
elixir9
webpages8
algorithm7
linkedin7
testing6
hound5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LinkedInLearning/learning-elixir-2898718
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
This repo is for the Linkedin Learning course: Learning Elixir
Contributions:1 review, 45 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
linkedin-learningelixirlinkedinelixir-langlearning-elixir
vanessaklee/stbernard
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
Bare bones series of webpages to demonstrate testing Elixir code with Hound
Contributions:34 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
houndtestingelixirwebpagesbare
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