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Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin and former Director of Engineering at Coinbase.
Lee began his career at Kana Communications where he worked as a Software Engineer. He worked there for 3 years before going to work at Guidewire Software. Charlie spent 4 years at the firm as a Senior Software Engineer. He left Guidewire in July of 2007.
A little over 4 years before Charlie would create Litecoin, he started working at Google in September of 2007 as a Software Engineer. At Google, Charlie worked on a number of projects such as Play Games, YouTube Mobile, and Chrome OS. In July of 2013, Charlie left his post at Google after being with the company for 5 years.
Lee created Litecoin in 2011. In 2013, about 2 years after creating Litecoin, Charlie left Google to go work at the newly created Coinbase. Charlie worked at Coinbase for 4 years first as Engineering Manager and then as Director of Engineering before he left in 2017. Charlie was one of the first people that were hired to work at Coinbase.
In June of 2017, Charlie stepped down as Director of Engineering at Coinbase to work fulltime on Litecoin. He is currently the Managing Director of the Litecoin Foundation where he oversees the development of the Litecoin cryptocurrency.
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