# Lee Doolan

> Programmer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/leedoolan

My interests are in software craftsmanship, programming languages, social networking, embedded and appliance computing, Web-related programming and open source software.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Beautylish
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
As a staff software engineer at Beautylish, my duties are
      varied.  I have written clients to interface with external
      websites via (usually) REST APIs.

      I often implement solutions using various AWS offerings such
      as Lambda, RDS, EC2, Route 53 and so on.

      I have developed numerous database schemas and defined (both
      declarative and imperative) SQLAlchemy models to go with them.

      I have added third party billing clients for US, European and
      Asian clients and currencies.

      As a back-end generalist, I do what is required to keep the
      website updated and running.

### Software Developer @ Silverthread, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
This job was a one year contract.

Silverthread Inc performs complex analyses in large software products
to extract metrics related to design quality. Such metrics are of
interest to system level designers who need to make decisions related
to software architectures and to executive level managers who need to
make decisions related to business economics.

I was an individual contributor at Silverthread Inc. I wrote code in
Python3, Pandas, Spyder, numpy,  scipy and matplotlib to develop Silverthread
application programs.

### Software Engineer @ Paradigm Healthcare Services
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Bash, Perl, Oracle, Git, Mason, SQLAlchemy, Pyramid, Flask, Python,
JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AWS, S3, Linux Sphinx, Ubuntu, VMWare,
Virtualbox, Trac, SVN

I am a maintenance programmer / developer for an established SAAS site.

I spearheaded Paradigm's conversion from SVN to Git.

I worked on the implementation of the conversion of company's core
service from Perl/Mason to Python/Flask.

### Software Engineer @ Livejournal.com
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
programmer C, Perl.  Mysql, perlbal, varnish.

LiveJournal is a social / blogging site that has been active since the late 1990s.  Nowadays the corporate offices are in Moscow, RUS but their servers (and their ops team) are located here in the United States.  While at LiveJournal I was the sole software engineer on the Ops team; my duties involved tool writing, troubleshooting, configuration and maintenance of existing code.  As a member of the Ops team, one of my responsibilities was to participate in 24/7 on call rotation.

### Contract Software Engineer @ Paradigm Healthcare Services
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
This is a short term contract.  My responsibilities are centered around reducing the length of a priortized list of bugs and enhancements.  The environment is Centos, Apache, Perl, Mason, Trac, svn, Oracle.   For source control, I use the git-svn bridge;  I run Ubuntu on my workstation.

### Software Developer @ SFGate.com
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
SFGate.com is one of the top ranked news sites in the country. It serves mainly the San Francisco Bay Area market. At SFGate, the duties of a staff software engineer are numerous and it is often necessary to handle a multiple task workload.

### Software engineer @ Sparkart
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Sparkart hosts websites for (mainly) media personalities (crissangel.com, lpunderground.com ...)  At Sparkart I worked on an internal engineering project. It's aim was to build a set of tools which will allow the Marketing, Product Management, and User Interface groups to build client websites with little assistance from the Software Engineering staff.

### software engineer @ picturetrail.com
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006
Picturetrail is an image sharing site.  Think 'Flickr that refused to take steroids'.  At Picturetrail, my responsibilities have fallen into 3 classes: first, maintaining existing infrastructure and applications, second, implementing new application subsystems third, mentoring other staff.

### software engineer @ Affero.com
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 | San Francisco
I was the only programmer at Affero.  With the exception of a small portion of the billing code, everything is my fault: the PHP / Smarty pages, the PostgreSQL database, the (CVS) repository and the Zope based propaganda pages.

### Software Engineer @ NBC Internet
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001
I was a server side engineer and NBCi working in the Infrastructure and Middleware group. I wrote a Java API to a locally written database server. In the past I have worked on several projects: ported NBCi's build environment to Solaris 2.6; set up a prototype of an HTTP accelerator cache, using SQUID; wrote a database API in C++ and Tcl; and upgraded NBCi's Universal registration application.

### C Programmer @ mtcs
Jan 1990 – Jan 1992
MTCS wrote software to automate the day to day operations of a transportation terminal.  At MTCS I was responsible for database (INGRES 6.3) design; coding application screens in 4GL; design and coding of an embedded C programs

### programmer @ optronics and space optics
Jan 1974 – Jan 1976


## Education
### bs in coins
University of Massachusetts Amherst

### Lenox School

### Tyrell Incept Academy

### Tyrell Incept Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/leedoolan
- GitHub: http://github.com/leed25d

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Last updated: 2026-04-10