Aloha! I’m Laurence A. Lee — software engineer, tinkerer, and occasional opinionated blogger. Born and raised in Hawaii, educated at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (B.S. Information & Computer Science, 1996), and about as Island as it gets.
This is the fun side of my online presence. The professional version is at lalee.net. The resume is at rubyjedi.com.
The Journey#
I started my career at Decision Research Corporation in Honolulu, writing middleware for insurance CRM systems. Then I went to the mainland for a few years — San Mateo, then Las Vegas working at MGM MIRAGE — before coming back to Hawaii, which is where I belong.
I’ve been independent consulting in Hawaii since 2008, first as Lalee Consulting and now as Lalee Innovations. In between I spent four years as Cloud Platform Engineer at Hawaiian Airlines — starting in Honolulu, then relocating to Mesa, AZ in 2022 to work out of their Tempe offices. When I accepted a position as Enterprise Architect Manager at American Savings Bank in 2025, I moved back to Honolulu to fulfill that onsite role, and stayed through May 2026.
As of June 2026 I’m back to independent consulting full-time.
The short version: for work I write code. For fun I write even more code.
The Geek Resume#
- Former Fedora Linux Ambassador for Hawaii and the Pacific Rim
- Microsoft Certified Enterprise Applications Developer
- Open-source contributor — most notably Soap4R-ng, a long-running maintenance effort to keep Ruby’s SOAP library alive across several major Ruby versions
- I once ran Fedora Core on an original Xbox. I’m not sorry.
This Site#
not404.com has existed in some form since 2004 — forum, Drupal site, Rails blog, Joomla blog, and most recently a five-year run as a placeholder video. The name is a nod to HTTP 404: this page is found.
The reboot in 2026 is less grand ambition and more: I have things to write about and projects to document, and they don’t belong on a client-facing site.
Contact#
Email: rubyjedi@gmail.com
GitHub: github.com/rubyjedi
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rubyjedi