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🤘 Lee Skillen

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Building cloud-native platforms that developers love to use 🌩️

👈 Yes, that really is a giant Pac-Man cup; no, it's not because I've got a tiny head (or maybe it is?)

👋 About Me

I'm a passionate technologist and serial entrepreneur who turned a Commodore 64 from childhood into a lifelong journey of building innovative tech solutions. Currently serving as Founder & CTO at Cloudsmith, where we're revolutionizing cloud-native artifact management and securing the world's software supply chain.

3️⃣ Career Highlights

  • 3x Technical Founder:
    • 🌩️ Cloudsmith (2018-present) - Leading cloud-native artifact management platform (see above!)
    • 💸 Vulcan FT (2012-2016) - Fintech platform using Domain Specific Language tech (hint: No.)
    • 🏴‍☠️ Newzbin (2001-2010) - Groundbreaking Usenset search engine that set some interesting legal precedents in UK tech

💡 Technical Focus

  • Cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
  • Search engine technology and high-performance computing.
  • Security and software supply chain integrity.
  • Web-scale services and database optimization.

🎮 Beyond the Code

  • Proud father balancing tech leadership with family time.
  • Avid gamer (board games, video games, you name it!)
  • Technology tinkerer and perpetual learner.
  • Open source contributor and community supporter.

🛠️ Expertise

  • Building developer-first platforms and tools.
  • Scaling cloud-native architectures.
  • Technical leadership and team building.
  • Enterprise security and compliance.

❓ What's going on?

Having raised over $30 million (🤑), we are building the team and technology of Cloudsmith through to IPO (🚀).

WE ARE HIRING. See: https://careers.cloudsmith.com/

⌨️ Obligatory Commit History (as of 2024-07-24)

Almost entirely dedicated to building Cloudsmith, but also includes OSS contributions and other collaborations:

contributions

You can generate your own over here: https://github-contributions.vercel.app/

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  1. dotfiles dotfiles Public

    Super dooper dotfiles (and dependencies setup).

    Vim Script 5

  2. cloudsmith-io/cloudsmith-cli cloudsmith-io/cloudsmith-cli Public

    Cloudsmith Command Line Interface (CLI)

    Python 26 23

  3. cloudsmith-io/cloudsmith-api cloudsmith-io/cloudsmith-api Public

    Cloudsmith API Clients (Generated)

    Python 10 3

  4. cloudsmith-io/terraform-provider-cloudsmith cloudsmith-io/terraform-provider-cloudsmith Public

    Terraform Provider for Cloudsmith

    Go 13 7