Tony Lee

Technical Lead
Engineering Manager
US Citizen

Accomplished and highly collaborative professional with comprehensive experience leading cross-functional teams in successfully designing, developing, and delivering complex technical projects. Adept at proposing and executing engineering solutions, mentoring junior engineers, and managing stakeholder expectations.

Experience

Senior Technical Lead  Cisco Systems, Inc. Jan 2021 - Apr 2024

  • Propose and execute workflows, architectures, and API endpoints in the Onboarding Experience project that helps customers onboard in 30 minutes.
  • Build a safe space for cross-functional teams to work together, resulting in 7 successful projects within 6 months.
  • Enforce clean and maintainable code that empowers the collaboration between US/Europe/India engineering teams.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to their growth of becoming feature owners.

Technical Lead  Cisco Systems, Inc. Aug 2019 - Jan 2021

  • Drive and deliver high-profile projects directly contributing to 20% of revenue growth.
  • Initiate AngularJS to React migration to mitigate unsupported vulnerabilities.
  • Introduce Cypress framework and improve testing dev time by 50%.

Senior Software Engineer  Tico Co., Ltd. Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Oversee all software development projects and ensure multiple on-time releases.
  • Improve message loading time by 60%.
  • Enforce efficient coding style. Reduce the codebase size by 30%.

Co-founder / CTO   Popup Technology Co., Ltd. Apr 2016 - Oct 2018

  • Interview and hire a talented 5-person team from scratch.
  • Carry out product demo sessions in regional events that contribute to 10% of new users.
  • Implement Scrum. Improve team productivity by 30%.
  • Deliver on-demand features that yield 100% revenue growth.

Senior Engineer  Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd. Dec 2013 - Feb 2015

iOS Developer  AXIM Communications Inc. Dec 2011 - Aug 2012

Education

University of California, San Diego  M. E. Electrical Engineering Sep 2006 - Jun 2008

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  B. S. Electrical Engineering Sep 2003 - Dec 2005

Certificates

Neural Networks and Deep Learning  Coursera Dec 2023

Neural Networks Regularization and Optimization  Coursera Jan 2024

Skills

Frontend


React, AngularJS, TypeScript, Cypress, Jest, Karma, HTML, CSS, Git, Webpack, React Native, Objective-C

Backend


Ruby on Rails, Node.js, MongoDB, Go, Golang, Python, GraphQL, SQL, Docker, Jenkins, Machine Learning

Management


Cross-functional Collaboration, Engineering Management, Leadership, Problem Solving