Summary
Hee Lee is a Lead Software Engineer with 11+ years building and operating large-scale cloud and distributed systems, currently focused on enterprise OpenTelemetry observability for hybrid Kubernetes platforms. He has led cloud platform teams at Samsung responsible for HA Kubernetes, Ceph storage, GitOps, IaC across public and on-prem datacenters, and scaled services supporting thousands of VMs, VDIs, and hundreds of cluster nodes. At AT&T Labs he specialized in containerized Ceph, Redis HA, storage QoS, and networked system performance—work that informed practical failure-recovery and real-time monitoring practices. Hee pairs a Ph.D. in Computer Science (virtualization, SDN, systems performance) with hands-on DevOps and platform engineering, and has built GenAI inference and multi-agent LLM services in production. Based in New Jersey, he’s as comfortable defining cloud governance and team KPIs as he is optimizing low-level I/O and network performance for demanding workloads.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Korea University
Master of Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Master of Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Korean