Aloha!#
I’m Laurence A. Lee, an Enterprise Architect and Cloud Platform Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering full-stack solutions across consulting, product, and enterprise environments.
Honolulu-based, I’m currently focused on consulting and technical advisory work through my Lalee Innovations venture. Most recently I served as Enterprise Architect Manager at American Savings Bank (June 2025 – May 2026). Before that I spent four years as a Cloud Platform Engineer at Hawaiian Airlines (April 2021 – May 2025) — starting in Honolulu, then relocating to Mesa, AZ in 2022 to work from their Tempe offices, before moving back to Honolulu to take the ASB role. Lalee Innovations has run as a side practice throughout.
I specialize in cloud platform engineering and enterprise architecture — designing and operating the platforms that product and engineering teams build on top of.
Skills & Expertise#
Cloud & Infrastructure#
- Cloud Hosting: AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Akamai Cloud
- Compute: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s, k3d/k3s), AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda), Azure (VMs, ACI, AKS, Azure Functions)
- IaC & Config: Terraform / OpenTofu, Ansible, Helm, kubectl
- Artifact Management: JFrog Artifactory
- Secrets & Service Mesh: HashiCorp Vault / OpenBao, Consul
- Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, AWS RDS
Platform Engineering & DevOps#
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Forgejo + act_runner
- GitOps: ArgoCD, Forgejo
- Orchestration & Automation: n8n
Observability#
- Logging: FluentBit → OpenSearch
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager
- Telemetry: OpenTelemetry
Development#
- Back End: Ruby on Rails, Next.js, FastAPI, Node.js / TypeScript
- DevTools: VS Code, Git, XCode, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok
Languages#
- Daily drivers: TypeScript / JavaScript, Python, Bash, Ruby
- Secondary: Go, Java, C#
- AI-assisted: Rust
Background (depth without daily use)#
Angular, Ionic / Capacitor, mobile development (iOS, Android)
Certifications#
AWS (2020–2021, Associate tier + Specialty)
- Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Certified Developer – Associate
- Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty
Microsoft (legacy)
- MCPD Certified Enterprise Application Developer (Credential #3650800)
Open-Source Projects#
| Project | Description | Language |
|---|---|---|
| Soap4R-ng | Enhanced Soap4R for Ruby 1.8–2.1+, with faster XML and HTTP clients | Ruby |
| Postman Prometheus | Run Postman collections and export as Prometheus metrics | JavaScript |
More open-source and hobby projects are documented at not404.com — the non-commercial side of my work.