Senior TAM · Infrastructure & Security · Northern Michigan
I've spent my career at the intersection of complex infrastructure and the customers who depend on it: managing platforms that process billions of calls for the largest US financial institutions, turning critical incidents into trust, and building the teams that keep it all running.
Hi, I'm Aaron D. Lee. I started my career testing Digium telephony hardware on a workbench in Huntsville, Alabama. Twenty years later, I'm the senior technical point of contact at Pindrop for some of the largest financial institutions in the country.
Curiosity and follow-through have led me to build internal tools that got widely adopted, run complex cloud migrations for customers processing hundreds of millions of calls, and mentor junior engineers. But the things I'm most proud of aren't always the technical wins. It's the 2 AM bridge calls with hoarse voices and tired eyes, keeping customers steady until we got it done, and the relief in their voice when it's finally over. That's what keeps me going.
The technical stuff doesn't mean anything without the person on the other end who needs your help. That's my main motivator, though it helps that I genuinely love learning the skills that make it all possible.
Northern Michigan
Infrastructure · Automation · Customer Success · Security
Real-time multiplayer 6-card Golf with 8 distinct AI opponents, event-sourced game history, and full account system. Built end-to-end on FastAPI + WebSockets with Postgres, Redis, and Sentry, and runs in production at golfcards.club.
Visit Project → Source Code →Offline-first evidence attestation for journalists, NGOs, and at-risk organizations. Ed25519 signatures, Merkle-chained hash history, and RFC 3161 time anchoring, designed to work airgapped and survive adversarial conditions.
Source Code →A steganography toolkit for hiding AES-256-GCM-encrypted messages inside images (DCT, LSB) and audio (LSB, spread-spectrum), with CLI, Web UI, and REST API frontends. Multi-factor extraction via reference photo, passphrase, and PIN.
Source Code →A privacy-first, locally-run home security and surveillance system with kiosk display and remote-viewer components, designed to run on your own hardware instead of shipping footage to someone else's cloud.
Source Code →A fully-scripted zsh, tmux, and vim environment for Arch and CachyOS, with a plugin manager, machine-specific profiles, a shell-config test harness, and a one-line installer. Built as a daily driver, not a showcase.
Source Code →Everything on this domain (this site, the Gitea at git.adlee.work, and the live golfcards.club game) runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet I manage with Terraform. I run it myself because depending on my own stack is the best way I know to stay sharp on the tools I work with during the day.
When something breaks, I write a blameless post-mortem with a tracked remediation plan, numbered INC tickets, action items, rollback procedures, the whole drill. Happy to share specific post-mortems on request; this is where I practice the SRE discipline I teach during the day.
alee@adlee.work:~$ tree -L 2 /services Internet ─ 443 ─▶ Traefik + Let's Encrypt │ ├─ adlee.work → this site ├─ git.adlee.work → Gitea ├─ golfcards.club → Golf Cards └─ git.golfcards.club → Gitea (alias) alee@adlee.work:~$ docker ps --format '{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}' traefik-traefik-1 traefik:v3.6 adlee-cv-web-1 nginx:alpine gitea-server-gitea-1 gitea/gitea:1.22-rootless gitea-server-postgres-1 postgres:16-alpine gitea-server-act_runner-1 gitea/act_runner:latest golfgame-app-1 golfgame-app golfgame-postgres-1 postgres:16-alpine golfgame-redis-1 redis:7-alpine alee@adlee.work:~$ docker network ls --format '{{.Name}}' | grep -Ev '^(bridge|host|none)$' traefik_web # shared ingress, Traefik + all routed services golfgame_internal # golfcards app + its Postgres + Redis gitea-server_gitea_db # Gitea + its dedicated Postgres (isolated) gitea-server_gitea_internal # Gitea + its act_runner alee@adlee.work:~$ crontab -l */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/check-uptime.sh # external uptime beacon → healthchecks.io 0 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/backup-postgres.sh # daily restic → DO Spaces, 90-day retention alee@adlee.work:~$ restic snapshots --tag postgres --latest 1 --compact ID Time Tags --------------------------------------------------------------- d15ac81e 2026-04-05 20:47 postgres golfgame-postgres-1 4c76072d 2026-04-05 20:47 postgres gitea-server-postgres-1 one DigitalOcean droplet · managed by Terraform
This CV site. Static HTML/CSS served from an Nginx Alpine container.
Self-hosted Gitea with an act_runner for CI. Canonical home for my personal code.
Real-time multiplayer card game. Python/FastAPI server, WebSocket transport, Postgres + Redis, Sentry for production monitoring.
Terraform configs live in a private repo for now. Happy to share on request, and I plan to publish a cleaned-up version soon.
I live in Northern Michigan. I love to kayak, fish, and hike. Getting out on the water or into the woods is the best way I know to clear my head. I'm always exploring somewhere new in the Northern Lower and Upper Peninsula.
I'm a self-taught cook who treats the kitchen the same way I treat a lab environment: experiment, taste, adjust, iterate. My family is usually the QA team, and they don't hold back on feedback.
I love live music, and photography is how I slow down. There's something about framing a shot that forces you to actually see what's in front of you before you can capture it.