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I'm Lee — I build tools that don't suck.

Software engineer, eight years, mostly TypeScript + Rust. Currently shipping the agentic-coding stack at Nova. Previously Linear (founding eng), Stripe (payments infra), Vercel (Edge).

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Selected projects

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2025 · Open source

kosmik

A WebGL infinite-canvas tool for organising research papers. 8k stars, used at 4 universities.

TypeScriptWebGLCRDT
2024 · Production

relay

Postgres replication tool. Sub-100ms cross-region failover. Used by 12 SaaS startups in production.

RustPostgresTokio
2024 · Internal

shipd

Internal deploy bot replacing a 200-line GitHub Action. Now used across 40 repos at Nova.

BunProbot
2023 · Hackathon

tinyhash

14-byte cryptographic perceptual hash for video frames. Won the Sigma hackathon 2023.

RustWASM
2022 · OSS

edge-pg

Postgres extension for serverless edge runtimes. 2.4k stars. Maintainer.

CPostgres
2022 · Talk

"Boring software"

Talk at Render 2022. 24k views on YouTube. Argues for fewer abstractions, more boring tools.

essaytalk

What I'm doing now