Leonard Lee
Principal Software Engineer at Empower
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolLeonard Lee is a Principal Application Engineer with 10+ years building high-throughput distributed systems and event-driven architectures across regulated financial and healthcare domains. He has led large enterprise migrations—including a 35M customer migration—and authored detailed low-level designs to align 15+ upstream teams while improving latency and preventing unnecessary processing at scale. Leonard’s work spans designing Kafka Connect standards, trace propagation, and SSO/search enhancements that tie backend migration readiness to user-facing experiences. He pairs hands-on implementation (from CI/CD and cloud migrations to HSM certificate moves) with cross-team technical leadership and operational tooling that cuts build and pipeline times. Based in the Kansas City area, he also brings a maker’s mindset—teaching and building hardware/software projects—illustrating a practical blend of systems engineering and creative problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (14)
cloud-foundry9
dotnet8
buildpack8
java8
plugin5
octoprint5
monitoring5
spring3
telegram3
spring-boot3
microservices2
3d-printing2
html1
security1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leoclee/7-segment-clock
Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 3 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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