Brian Lee
Software Engineer at ByteDance
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Brian Lee is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend and service architecture, currently contributing to ByteDance after multi-year engineering work across Microsoft’s Azure teams. He has a strong systems background demonstrated by contributions to the industrial-grade C++ RPC framework brpc—fixing Redis parsing and adding bthread stack-tracing tools—and practical experience shipping cloud-native features for AKS, virtual machines, and Service Fabric. His early internships span NASA JPL data-visualization and UCLA graph-embedding research, reflecting an ability to bridge research, tooling, and production systems. Based in Bellevue, he combines low-level performance tuning with large-scale service design, and brings a track record of making complex distributed systems more debuggable and reliable.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Yongsan International School of SeoulUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (5)
rpc10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
redis10
debugging9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/brpc
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
brpc is an Industrial-grade RPC framework using C++ Language, which is often used in high performance system such as Search, Storage, Machine learning, Advertisement, Recommendation etc. "brpc" means "better RPC".
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 17 reviews, 51 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the `brpc` framework, specifically addressing issues related to Redis parsing and implementing necessary fixes. They made modifications to `redis_reply.cpp`, `redis.cpp`, and `redis_reply.h` to improve the handling and processing of Redis replies within the RPC system. The contributions included bug fixes, and general improvements to the stability and reliability of Redis communication within the framework. The user also added a tool to help with bthread stack tracing and debugging.
cppmachine-learningrpc
lorinlee/brpc
Feb 2019 - May 2025
Industrial-grade RPC framework used throughout Baidu, with 1,000,000+ instances and thousands kinds of services, called "baidu-rpc" inside Baidu.
Contributions:32 pushes, 23 branches, 1 tag in 6 years 3 months
rpc
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