Summary
Cary Lee is a pragmatic software engineering leader and VP of Engineering at MD Clarity in Seattle, bringing 14 years of experience delivering scalable systems. He marries technical vision with a people-first approach, building psychologically safe, inclusive teams that tackle the right problems to drive real customer impact. At Amperity, he advanced from Lead Software Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager, guiding cross-functional delivery of ML-enabled platforms. His early career spans impactful roles at Usermind and Microsoft, where he built distributed data pipelines, test automation, and tooling that improved reliability and agility. He also has hands-on academic and media-tech leadership experience from Northwestern's Knight Lab, collaborating with professors and students to deliver award-winning news applications. Based in Seattle, Cary combines hands-on engineering depth with strategic leadership to scale teams and architectures—from data infrastructure to ML-powered products.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer