Summary
Hendi Lie is a Staff Software Engineer (SRE) with 11 years’ experience optimizing capacity, efficiency, and reliability for planet-scale storage and Google Cloud infrastructure. At Google he has led SRE teams responsible for metadata systems and fleet-wide capacity, and now serves as an Uber SRE tech lead for foundational technologies. His background in data science at QUT informs a data-driven approach—he built interpretable predictive models for government stakeholders and scalable clustering solutions for social media analysis. Hendi’s academic work on extracting spatial language for robotic navigation was published at WISE 2017, reflecting a long-standing interest in applied research. Based in Sydney, he balances deep systems engineering with statistical rigor and a knack for turning complex telemetry into actionable operational improvements. Outside work he teaches voluntarily and plays piano, guitar, badminton and Dota 2, showing a blend of leadership, creativity and competitive teamwork.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons), Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology (Hons), Information Technology at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Engineering at Universitas Surabaya (UBAYA)
English, Indonesian, Chinese