Lee Hodg

"Lee is an excellent software engineer. I very much enjoyed working with him and hope to work with him again. On my team Lee jumped in on a fairly complicated Python, Flask, GraphQL, MongoDB project that required domain specific knowledge to update. He got up to speed way faster than expected. His education and Ph.D, and years of real world software engineering has given him an edge over most software engineers I know. His documentation is supurb, and his willingness to dive in an learn new topics makes him a great addition to any team."

"I hired Lee back in 2014 as a freelance web developer to do feature development on a Django-based website for my small brewery and taproom, Clandestine Brewing. Over the years I have re-engaged Lee for the same. With minimal instruction, Lee was able to develop complex features including integrating with third-party APIs that were sometimes poorly documented. I know Lee to be detail-oriented, thorough and an expert communicator. I would not hesitate to recommend Lee to anyone and hope that I continue to have the chance to work with him in the future."

"Lee is a gifted developer with a deep knowledge of Python and Django and an expert knowledge of Scrapy and related tools. I had the pleasure of working with Lee for over 2.5 years at Evopricing, where Lee was the principal architect of large-scale data mining solutions built from the ground up. Being extremely proficient in all areas of Scrapy, Lee built complex data-mining solutions that delivered data both in an efficient manner whilst ensuring data integrity. Lee takes a lot of pride in crafting software and was always keen to follow best practices in software development, like writing clean, well-documented, speedy code and using agile methodologies. A valuable asset to any team!"

"Lee has worked on my art-related iOS app for the better part of a year now. Lee has shipped no fewer than five formidable (and product-defining) features in this time. Marcel is incredibly lucky to have someone who is not only a whip-smart and conscientious developer, but an excellent communicator. Lee understands how to break down complex development problems into plain English, which no small feat for a business stakeholder like myself with little technical knowledge. It is a pleasure to work with him on this project."

"Lee is a highly skilled developer and a great communicator. He is a gifted backend engineer and was able to plan and solve any task thoroughly and in a scalable manner. Lee is great with communicating any issues he has. I have learned a lot from Lee. Working with lee is a great pleasure."

"Lee is an excellent engineer. He has been - and still is - an integral part of Heartface's back-end development over the past 9 months. Since then, being a (ridiculously efficient) lateral thinker, he has produced creative solutions to some of our most pressing problems with our product data, search and content recommendation modules using Python, Django Rest Framework, Scrapy, Beautifulsoup, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL among other technologies. He's a conscientious team player that has also performed code reviews on a regular basis and is always available and willing to help other members of the team. Needless to say, Lee will be a valuable asset to any team he joins."

"Lee is a highly skilled engineer, not afraid to dive into unknown territory, always thriving to find the right solution for the problem. Python and Django are his bread and butter, but also had the pleasure to work with him on tasks in the machine learning field, using off-the-shelf products like AWS personalize to build a collaborative recommendation engine for a personalized field, to exploring more low level models, train and find a more suitable solution for the need. From provisioning the dev environment to a fully redundant production setup, Lee is your one stop shop for all your backend needs. Lee would be an extremely valuable asset in any company. Looking forward to work again with him in the future."