Geonwoo Lee
Software Engineer at Whatnot
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeonwoo Lee is a software engineer in the San Jose Bay Area who transitioned from a New York State CPA into engineering after earning an MS in Computer Science from NYU with a focus on AI/ML. Over eight years he has blended finance and tech experience, rising from accounting and controllership roles to founding engineer positions at AWS Launch Manager and subsequent SDE roles at Amazon and Whatnot, building scalable APIs and UIs on AWS. He brings a disciplined, audit-minded approach to software design and operational reliability, honed during his time in finance at firms like CohnReznick and Sculptor Capital. Comfortable across cloud-native backends and frontend integrations, he combines product-facing delivery with deep platform engineering. Fluent in Korean (이건우) and English, he leverages cross-domain expertise to translate complex business requirements into robust, production-ready systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree BBA, Bachelor’s Degree BBA at Baruch CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (9)
java7
spring-boot7
mysql5
react4
javascript3
typescript3
friend1
backend1
barrier1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geonoo/Solution
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
코딩테스트
Contributions:2 PRs, 170 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
python
HanghaeE5/Back-end
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
백엔드 레포
Contributions:35 reviews, 336 commits, 204 PRs in 2 months
spring-bootjavamysql
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