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▫  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)

National Tsing Hua University

Software Engineer

George Lee

Pinterest

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

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.

Crescendo Lab

Head of Engineering

Ads product, targeting, promoted answer, Leads generation, Advertiser 
 acquisition & retention.

Quora

Software Engineer, Ads/Growth

Pricing, unlimited program, promotions, SEO, A/B testing & experiments 
 Python, golang

Postmates

Growth Engineer

Email marketing, User sign up experiences. 
 Improved user engagement, up-selling flow and top funnel user acquisition. 
 Python, Django, Ember

Zenefits

Senior Software Engineer, Growth

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.

EBay Inc

Senior Software Engineer

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

EBay

Software Engineer intern

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.

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