About

Alexander Lee is a skilled Frontend Engineer at Amazon, with over 12 years of relevant experience in the industry. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has since been passionate about solving complex problems using various technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript (Typescript), AWS, and React. He strongly believes in team collaboration and embraces agile processes to achieve successful outcomes. Currently, Alexander is working at Amazon as a Frontend Engineer, where he has created a reusable React component package library that serves multiple applications, allowing advertisers to preview their ads seamlessly. He has also led a team of three to build a full-stack application using Amazon Web Services via AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFormation, Cloudwatch, etc. to enhance the advertisement experience. Alexander has simplified everyday tasks such as code reviews and ticket creation by creating reusable skeleton templates, which increased productivity by 20%. Additionally, he has achieved 90% test coverage across the main application via unit (Jest/Enzyme) and integration (Cypress) testing. In the past, Alexander has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Unite Us, where he built and led the frontend team by creating a React component library reusable across many different applications. He also developed and built the frontend architecture for the customer-facing platform using React/Redux, improved the performance of all frontend applications through Webpack configurations, memoization libraries, and applying best practices. He ensured the quality of the application through integration and unit tests via Jest/Jasmine/Enzyme. Alexander is also a content creator and has a YouTube channel dedicated to helping aspiring developers land their first job. He believes in coding with a beginner's mentality and encourages others to do the same. Alexander has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California and has completed a program at the Flatiron School. His tech stack includes Frontend, AWS, Javascript, test, Integration, Software Engineer, Typescript, Web, and Redux.