David Lee
@davidlee5
Senior software engineer with 11+ years in full-stack, backend, cloud/DevOps and engineering leadership.
What I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with 11+ years building full-stack, backend, and cloud/DevOps solutions across startups and large-scale enterprise platforms. I regularly take on work beyond individual contribution—mentoring and onboarding engineers, establishing engineering and testing practices, coordinating cross-functional delivery, and bridging business requirements with technical execution.
I have led modernization efforts, incident response, test strategy, and platform migrations while serving as a testing authority and QA lead across distributed and remote environments. I am moving into engineering management as the natural next step, bringing hands-on technical skills, strong cross-team communication, and a track record of measurable improvements in quality, reliability, and delivery.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
IT Systems Engineer III
State of Vermont
May 2025 - Present (10 months)
Modernized a 25+ year legacy codebase by creating comprehensive documentation, analyzing inter-service traffic to identify architectural weaknesses, and coordinating cross-department testing to reduce redundant effort and overhead.
Site Reliability Engineer
Burq
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024 (1 month)
Investigated and resolved ECS container crashes, led database performance monitoring and alerting practices, and coordinated cross-functional remediation of application memory leaks and SQS throughput bottlenecks.
Served as testing authority within a 3-person team, drove test quality standards, contributed to large-scale migrations and feature implementations, and responded to production escalations to minimize customer impact.
Quality Assurance Lead
TaxJar
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021 (2 years 7 months)
Orchestrated automated testing practices platform-wide, led a 2-person QA team and work groups, established testing heuristics adopted across the organization, and onboarded engineers to testing standards prior to acquisition.
Test Automation Lead
MyWebGrocer
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)
Designed and implemented automated testing solutions for an undertested platform, informed event-driven architecture adoption through testing context, and partnered with mobile teams to establish Kotlin testing practices.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Cox Automotive
May 2013 - Jan 2018 (4 years 8 months)
Built BDD tooling and CI pipeline infrastructure, formalized accessibility testing practices, led automation efforts, and contributed to backend service development while mentoring and onboarding team members.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Vermont Technical College
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2013
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science focused on software development and systems engineering.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Splunk
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon S3
GitHub
Bitbucket
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
PySpark
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
CouchDB
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
Ruby on Rails
.NET
Puppeteer
Redis
Terraform
Mocha
AngularJS
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
ASP.NET
Lua
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Grafana
New Relic
AWS Lambda
pytest
JUnit
Robot Framework
Root Cause
SQL
Espresso
Playwright
Remote
TaxJar
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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