Lee Robinson
Lee Robinson is a software engineer and technical writer who worked on developer relations and product for Next.js at Vercel, rising to vice president, before joining the AI coding tool Cursor; according to his personal website, he now works on machine learning at SpaceXSpaceXSpaceX is a company founded by Elon Musk in 2002 whose businesses include space transportation, Starlink satellite communications and artificial intelligence. It went public in 2026 under the ticker SPCX.Open the full entry.
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Key facts
2020Joining Vercel
By his own account, he joined the frontend cloud platform company Vercel in 2020, when it had about 30 employees; at Vercel he rose from individual contributor to vice president, working on developer relations, product, community, documentation and other areas.[1]
2023Vice President of Developer Experience at Vercel
The speaker profile for SmashingConf San Francisco 2023 described him as Vercel’s vice president of developer experience, leading the community for the React framework Next.js and contributing to open source.[2]
July 2025Leaving Vercel and Joining Cursor
In July 2025, he wrote that he had finished about five years of work at Vercel, noting that the company had by then grown to about 650 people.[1]
According to his personal website, he joined the AI coding tool Cursor that same month, spending his first year as a generalist across engineering, product and marketing, creating and maintaining documentation and learning courses, and taking on a product-manager-like role for several product launches.[3]
June 2026Moving to Machine Learning Work
According to his personal website, in June 2026 he moved to machine learning work at Cursor, helping improve model behavior and personality.[3]
The Associated Press reported on June 16, 2026, that SpaceX said in a regulatory filing it would move forward with a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, made by Anysphere, and that Cursor would become a wholly owned subsidiary when the deal closed, expected in the third quarter.[4]
As of October 2026: Machine Learning Work at SpaceX
His personal website lists his time at Cursor as July 2025 to August 2026; the site now says he works on machine learning at SpaceX, helping train useful AI models.[3][5]
On his personal website he says he has been coding for about 15 years and teaching for the second half of that time, and that he advises companies and makes angel investments.[5]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Vercel: Official website: https://vercel.com/ (opens in a new window)[1]
Cursor: Official website: https://cursor.com/ (opens in a new window)[3]
SpaceX: Official website: https://www.spacex.com/ (opens in a new window)[5]
Personal website: Public link: https://leerob.com/ (opens in a new window)[5]
X: Public account: https://x.com/leerob (opens in a new window)[5]
LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeerob (opens in a new window)[2]