Technical Leadership
I lead cross-functional teams of up to 10 through full delivery: SRS and architecture docs, mentoring, Agile cadence, and hands-on guidance that helps teams ship 1-2 weeks ahead when it counts.
Open to select collaborations
Hi, I'm
Shoapeng Lee
Engineering Leader specializing in Commerce Platforms
I build scalable commerce systems and engineering teams that can ship without heroics.
- 9+ years of full-stack engineering
- Led teams of up to 10 engineers
- Shopify Plus + AWS commerce platforms
- Terraform, serverless, and full SDLC delivery
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- TypeScript
- Remix
- AWS
- Terraform
- Shopify
- Architecture
9+ YearsExperience
CommercePlatforms
EngineeringLeadership
AWSArchitecture
What I bring
Leadership first: teach teams, then ship platforms they can own
Teaching That Scales Companies
Weekly sharing, pairing, and reviews that transfer judgment. I measure leadership by how many teammates can ship without me in the critical path.
Full-Stack Product Engineering
End-to-end delivery with Node.js, TypeScript, React, and Remix. I turn requirements into production systems that teams can own and extend.
Cloud Architecture & IaC
AWS platforms built as code with Terraform: networks, containers, serverless, CI/CD, and multi-environment parity that stays reviewable.
Selected work
Challenge, solution, trade-offs, and measurable results
Admin Controls Through Shopify Extensions
Expanded merchant admin capabilities with admin blocks, action links, and checkout UI extensions.
- Admin task completion without leaving order screens
- Checkout captured delivery/tip rules without theme rewrites
Operations Portal & Webhooks
Next.js associate portals, Express webhook platform, cron fleets, and back-office order tools for specialty retail ops.
- Support tickets ↓ about 40% after ops UI replaced spreadsheet workarounds
- Specialty order processing moved off the sales-floor bottleneck
Specialty POS Capture
Embedded Shopify POS app for specialty order capture on the sales floor, with Node APIs and MySQL specialty state.
- Specialty capture completed in-flow during live sales
- Handoff to ops without spreadsheet re-entry
Experience
Scale and delivery across commerce platforms and engineering orgs
Director Of Software and Development
Sunrise Integration
Retail & apparel brands · Multi-region · Teams of 5-10
Lead engineering for enterprise commerce and integration work: architecture, mentoring, and delivery across Shopify Admin/POS/Checkout, AWS, and Terraform. I run cross-functional teams of 5-10 through full SDLC, write SRS/ERDs/infrastructure docs, and keep releases predictable while teaching people to own the systems they ship.
- Built specialty retail platforms end to end: POS capture apps, associate portals (Next.js + Lambda), Express webhook platforms, cron fleets (exports, pending cleanup, FTP, portal sync), and back-office order tools with Dockerized multi-environment deploys.
- Shipped Shopify Admin, POS, and Checkout extensions plus Functions for money-path rules (validation, discounts, cart transforms), with domain logic kept server-side instead of UI-only.
- Designed B2B order sync as SQS/Lambda pipelines with Zod validation, company/location/catalog enrichment, Shopify GraphQL create/reconcile, and idempotent replay paths.
- Split larger platforms into modular services (gateway, users, locations, orders, inventory, tax, waste) and enforced 3-tier interiors so UI, domain rules, and persistence stop smearing together.
- Standardized AWS footing with Terraform modules, ECR/container deploys, CodeBuild promotion, blue-green Remix releases, and event-driven workers (EventBridge/SQS/Lambda).
- Mentored through weekly sharing, pairing, and review-as-teaching; repeatedly pulled delivery 1-2 weeks ahead by clearing ambiguity early with architecture docs.
Lead Engineer
Redko
Cross-platform mobile · Contract lead
Contract lead on cross-platform mobile product work: React Native delivery, AWS-backed auth/storage, and fast iteration with product owners under tight timelines.
- Owned React Native feature delivery and performance work across iOS and Android, including platform-specific bug hunts and component refactors.
- Integrated AWS Cognito, S3, and Amplify so auth, assets, and deploys stopped being one-off laptop setups.
- Turned product requirements into shippable prototypes and production paths without waiting on a large platform team.
- Left clearer ownership boundaries so mobile changes did not depend on tribal setup knowledge.
Software Engineering Manager
Melody Publishing
EdTech platforms · APAC · Engineering management
Managed engineering for education-technology products: a centralized GraphQL/Mongo backend for internal apps, real-time classroom systems, and the websites that supported them. This is where leading by teaching became the default operating mode.
- Designed and shipped a centralized Node.js + MongoDB + GraphQL/Mongoose backend that became the shared data platform for internal applications.
- Led the Interactive Response System for English-language classrooms (Unity 2D/3D + WebSockets), raising measured student engagement by over 30%.
- Managed engineers through planning, implementation, and release, translating educator goals into concrete technical requirements.
- Built and maintained WordPress/Joomla and custom theme/plugin sites around the same product ecosystem.
- Established mentoring and ownership habits that scaled delivery beyond one hero engineer.
Build a team that can outgrow one hero
Architecture, mentoring, commerce platforms, or a delivery org that needs clearer ownership. I lead by teaching and shipping.
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