Summary
Derek Lee is a software engineer at Google with five years of hands-on experience building scalable systems and data pipelines. He holds both a B.Eng and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union, graduating with top grades and a strong foundation in engineering principles. Derek cut his teeth at AWS App Mesh, where he built end-to-end Java-based data processing pipelines using Lambda, Step Functions, and Redshift, demonstrating fluency across cloud-native services and infrastructure-as-code. He also has tutoring experience in computer science and practical analytic experience from a finance-focused internship at NYU, where he reconciled thousands of invoices and audited multimillion-dollar energy expenses. Based in New York, Derek blends rigorous academic training with production engineering at a major tech company, bringing a data-driven mindset and systems-level perspective that’s not obvious from a title alone.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma with CTE Endorsement, Civil Engineering, 96%, Advanced Regents Diploma with CTE Endorsement, Civil Engineering, 96% at Brooklyn Technical High School
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering, 4.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering, 4.0 at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art