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George Lee

Software Engineer
▫ Technical leader who drives company and people's growth, as well as product directions. About Glee ▫ Hands-on coder, with growth mindset, and cares about product and user experiences. ▫ Profound experiences from various size / type of companies, from ads to SAAS, C2C, B2B, E-commerce. ▫ Well-rounded technical experiences. Started from platform / framework to product engineering. Head of Engineering@Crescendo Lab 2020 ▫ Lead the whole engineering team as core executive in the company. Oversee all things engineering, including growing, mentoring and managing engineers. ▫ Architected the company's tech stack and provided guidance on technical directions. ▫ Establishing various processes to facilitate dev velocity, working efficiency and engineers' growth. Software Engineer, Ads / Growth@Quora 2018 - 2020 ▫ Lead developer of Quora user facing ads products. Maintained and Improved the functionality of ads display, insights, logging and monitoring. ▫ Creator of promoted answer, lead generation ads. They are accountable for 25%+ of the overall revenue. ▫ Owned and oversaw multiple existing ads selection, filtering and targeting products, like geo-targeting, question targeting, bloom filter.etc. ▫ Drove multiple advertiser growth initiatives projects to help advertiser's acquisition and retention. ▫ Led and mentored multiple new hires and interns to make sure they succeed in the company. Software Engineer, Growth / Buyer@Postmates 2017- 2018 ▫ Led pricing product- re-built the whole buyer pricing code base, enabled experiment-able and configurable pricing. Tested different customer pricing structure and sensitivities. ▫ Architected the unlimited subscription product - Tripled the number of subscribers and pushed the product to become the most profitable one in the company. ▫ Product owner of growth services, including products above, plus promo code service, internal promotion dashboard, which helps growth marketing folks to run campaigns more efficiently. ▫ Worked on customer events instrumentation and integration, with Mparticle, Amplitude, and Braze. Senior Software Engineer, Growth@Zenefits 2016-2017 ▫ Developed and utilized Notification Center as a centralized micro-service for sending email / push / inbox notification. Worked with the marketing team to send cold emails which provided a better channel for top funnel. Cost per lead beats every other channel by 20~50%. ▫ Worked on UX and tooling around user acquisition, user engagement and retention. ▫ Developed Medal tier plan selection, feature gating on main apps for new pricing plans. Senior Software Engineer@eBay, Inc 2013-2016 ▫ Developed features around eBay Rest service client, which was being used for the entire eBay site. ▫ Worked and delivered eBay next-gen global centralized remote configuration system, including service rewrite, caching improvement and mongo database / configuration migration. Upgraded the Intern 2012 UI editor using Node Js ▫ Managed and developed eBay Inc. application registration service, as part of the cloud platform. ▫ Created and Designed a new Authentication Service. Second Lieutenant, Ordnance Platoon Leader@Army Taiwan National Defense 2010-2011 ▫ Commanded and led a company of troops. Engaged in operations below Ordinance and Training. ▫ Performed duties of supply and operations management to pass the annual national defense exercise. Master of Information Systems Management (MISM) 2012 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (With MISM scholarship, GPA 3.66)
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National Tsing Hua University
Seattle, WA, USA

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
  • Fields
  • Work experience
    10-15 years
  • Management
  • Skills
    Improvement
    Growth Mindset
    Facilitate
    Mentoring
    Information Systems Management
    Authentication Service
    Operations Management
    Configuration System
    Technical Directions
    Product Engineering
  • Highest level of education

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    Software Engineer
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  • Freelance

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Jan 2020 - Present
Merchant catalog systems : product ingestion/product groups/promotion. performed acting engineering manager for the team

Head of Engineering

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
1 yr 0 mos
I led the company's engineering department. During my time : - Introduced/improved the company's tech stack with advance library, offline workflow and analytic tools. - Led the effort to bring down total infra cost by 30% - Built up the first performance review system & rubric for eng. - Improved overall team efficiency by introducing better planning and execution best proactices.

Software Engineer, Ads/Growth

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
3 yrs 0 mos
Ads product, targeting, promoted answer, Leads generation, Advertiser acquisition & retention.

Growth Engineer

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 yrs 0 mos
Pricing, unlimited program, promotions, SEO, A/B testing & experiments Python, golang

Senior Software Engineer, Growth

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
2 yrs 0 mos
Email marketing, User sign up experiences. Improved user engagement, up-selling flow and top funnel user acquisition. Python, Django, Ember

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2013 - Dec 2016
4 yrs 0 mos
Web Services Framework Team - Worked on EBay Java Services framework : JAXRS, Jersey Middleware Services Team - Worked on EBay Global Remote Configuration System. Created PayPal instances of the config system including Rest services, Java/nodejs Client and config editor UI console. - Contributed EBay cloud system - Application Registration Service Kernel Team - Sub area : Security Platform - Created new Authentication Service including developing new policy database, restful services and UI console. - Designed and implemented Oauth client registration database and rest APIs. - Worked on EBay Rate Limiter and improved its functionality and processing speed of event processor in order to monitor and block the malicious attack on EBay marketplace.

Software Engineer intern

May 2012 - Aug 2012
4 mos
Data and Security Platform Team - Worked on Real Time Defender in order to monitor and block the malicious attack on EBay marketplace. - Improved the functionality and processing speed of event processor by designing and implementing Esper. - Improved database performance by adapting XpressMP. - Built test environment and cases in order to get the performance benchmark of both Esper and XpressMP

Second Lieutenant, Platoon Leader

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
2 yrs 0 mos
Second Lieutenant, Ordinance Platoon Leader 2010 - 2011 1 year Commanded a company of troops engaged in operations below Ordinance and Training Performed duties relating to supply and operations management.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)
B.S. Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management
- 2010