# Brendan Lee

> Senior Software Engineer (On Parenting Sabbatical)

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brendanlee

I am an experienced builder of software based products and services with a mix of experience in both Product Management and Engineering. I've created and helped scale small startups and I've built scalable products used by millions at some of the largest companies in the world. I enjoy solving difficult problems and improving the lives of folks using the products I'm building.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
As a SDE at Twitch, I architect and implement products that are used by millions worldwide on a daily basis. I primarily work with Go, TypeScript, and AWS based infrastructure to build scalable services and products. During my time at Twitch, I have primarily owned products & services that facilitate rewarding users for their time and activity on Twitch, i.e. Viewer Rewards or Drops.

### Engineer @ Shelf Engine
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, WA
2nd Engineering Hire at Shelf Engine, a company reducing food waste for the Grocery supply chain space via Machine Learning & Automation. During my tenure at Shelf Engine, the company grew from around 20 employees to 200. I owned the company's data integration platform and data pipeline, which was connected to some of the largest Grocery chains in the country, like Walmart & Kroger.

### Founder & CEO (acquired by Bloq) @ Nodesmith (Techstars Seattle 2019)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Nodesmith offers a platform that connects applications to decentralized blockchain networks.  We host and manage scalable blockchain node infrastructure, so you can focus on building the features of your decentralized application.

### Product Manager - Developer Platform @ Tableau Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
As a product manager for Tableau, I worked with a software development team to deliver our business intelligence and visualization products to our customers.  My responsibilities include:

* Industry research and strategic planning.
* Working with customers to understand their needs.
* Working alongside development and design teams to ensure we build the correct product. 
* Product evangelism.  

In my time at Tableau, I worked on our cloud partnerships, most notably our Google Sheets, and also in Extensibility.  I was the product manager for the developer extensibility platform called the Web Data Connector, which allows developers to connect Tableau to new data sources that are not  natively supported.

### Associate Product Manager @ Tableau Software
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Research Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
During my CS master's work, I worked as a Research Assistant for the UW database group.  I worked on a novel distributed shared nothing DBMS called Myria.  My research focused on advanced algorithms for automatically scaling Myria in a multi-tenant environment in order to meet performance SLAs. 

http://db.cs.washington.edu/

### Program Manager Intern @ Tableau Software
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
I served as the Product Owner for a scrum team working new Mac version of our previously Window's only software.  My responsibilities included backlog grooming and prioritization, understanding what our customers wanted in the product,and the creation of functional specifications for various features.

### Computer Graphics (CSE 457) Teaching Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
As a TA, I taught class sections, managed the course website, prepared and curated programming assignments, graded projects and tests, and tutored students in the course material.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Tableau Software
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Seattle, WA
I worked as a software engineering intern on one of the backend teams at Tableau.  I developed and shipped a feature that performed automatic data modeling and cleaning on user's data when Tableau connected to that data.  My feature was demoed live to 10,000+ customers at our Customer conference, and has shipped to millions of users.

### Databases (CSE 344) Teaching Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
As a TA, I taught class sections, managed the course website, prepared and curated programming assignments, graded projects and tests, and tutored students in the course material.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Groundspeak
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Worked on the middle layer of a new updated automated mail system, that moved mail traffic from the website and mobile to the mail server.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Washington
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### BS in Computer Science
University of Washington
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lbrendanl
- Website: https://spacedust.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22