Lee Byron
San Francisco, CA, US
Lee is the co-creator of GraphQL and Executive Director of the GraphQL Foundation. He leads Product Engineering at Watershed building tools to address the climate crisis. Lee has had a hand in open source libraries used by millions of developers worldwide including GraphQL, React, Dataloader, Immutable.js, Relay, Flow and more.
Around the community
- Technical Steering Committee
- GraphQL Specification Working Group
GraphQL Specification WG member · last attended in 2026


