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I build full-stack products, paint and illustrate, and design spaces — based in Los Angeles. I care about clarity, craft, and calm interfaces.
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Muffin App
A food discovery app for LA & OC that recommends meals based on your taste preferences — not star ratings. Built with React Native, NestJS, and OpenAI across 800+ flavor profiles.
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I'm Edward Lee — a self-taught engineer with a background in fine art and architectural design.
I started in art, developing an eye for composition, proportion, and detail. From there I taught myself architectural drafting and designed residential homes. Then, before AI made it easy, I taught myself to code from scratch — built and published a full mobile application, shipped client websites, and engineered the infrastructure dashboard that Knoxlabs still runs on today.
That path — artist to architect to engineer — shapes how I build. I don't separate aesthetics from function. Every product I touch is designed to feel as good as it works.
“Any information. Three clicks. No exceptions.”
The three-click rule — my design north star
- Started
- Fine art & illustration, then self-taught architecture and code
- Built
- Mobile apps, production dashboards, full-stack web products
- Education
- Pratt Institute · California College of the Arts
- Based in
- Los Angeles, CA
- Now
- Open to full-time and contract engineering roles
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