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Laurence A. Lee

Laurence A. Lee

Cloud Platform Engineer & Technical Solutions Architect

This is my professional portfolio — selected work, technical writing, and credentials, all in one place.

Journal — technical write-ups and operational notes
Projects — professional work I’ve built and can talk about
Résumé — full career history, skills, and certifications

For consulting and managed services, visit lalee.net. For hobby projects and geek life, visit not404.com.

Featured

Boarding Pass - Waikiki Trolley

What It Was # Boarding Pass was a hybrid ticketing system built for the Waikiki Trolley — Honolulu’s iconic open-air sightseeing service. The solution bridged a physical paper pass experience with digital validation, deliberately designed around the trolley’s customer base: predominantly elderly tourists who were technology-averse and expected a tangible ticket in hand.

Mobile Concierge - WBIDA

What It Was # The WBIDA Mobile Concierge was an internal field operations application built for the Waikiki Business Improvement District Association — the organization responsible for managing and maintaining the Waikiki commercial district in Honolulu. The app was used by WBIDA’s Aloha Ambassadors, the district’s uniformed street-level field staff, as their primary tool for logging activity and reporting issues across the district.

Recent

Reboot (Again)

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I’ve been relaunching this site for about a decade now. If you dug into the Wayback Machine, you’d find the following progression: a WordPress blog, then “Lalee Consulting” on Camaleon CMS, then an Odoo installation that I absolutely should not have run as a public website, then a placeholder holding page that I kept updating the relaunch date on (“Relaunching July 2018. Probably.”), and eventually a nearly-empty Hugo site.

On Collecting Cloud Certifications (and Letting Them Expire)

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I earned four AWS certifications in a roughly 14-month sprint through 2020 and 2021: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (Dec 2020) AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Jan 2021) AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Jan 2021) AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty (Mar 2021) They all carried a three-year validity window. They’ve all expired.