Jacob Lee
Co-Founder & CEO at Genemod
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Lee is a founder and CEO with 14 years of technical and scientific experience, currently leading Genemod to streamline life-sciences R&D workflows for biopharma customers including Merck and AstraZeneca. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects from cryptographic Node.js tooling to Material UI components—with deep domain expertise from research roles in cancer immunotherapy and stem cell genetics. Trained in bioengineering and systems engineering (PhD work at George Washington University), he uniquely bridges bench science and cloud-native software to accelerate drug discovery. Notably, his open-source work includes enhancing speakeasy's cryptographic support and improving Material UI's Slider UX, reflecting a rare mix of backend security and frontend interaction design.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Systems Engineering at The George Washington UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesMaster's degree Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Master's degree Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at University of Washington College of Engineering
Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
javascript10
otp10
two-factor-authentication10
hmac10
nodejs10
lessc10
totp10
react10
sha9
cryptography9
base329
material-design9
system8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
speakeasyjs/speakeasy
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
**NOT MAINTAINED** Two-factor authentication for Node.js. One-time passcode generator (HOTP/TOTP) with support for Google Authenticator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's commits primarily involve modifying and enhancing the core functionality of the `speakeasy` library. These changes include incorporating support for different encryption algorithms like SHA256 and SHA512 within the HOTP and TOTP functions, as well as refactoring the code to improve efficiency and readability. Additionally, the user has updated the codebase to use Buffer objects for handling different encoding types and for generating digests, further solidifying the library's cryptographic operations. These updates include adding unit tests that validate the correct functionality of the library.
two-factorfactor-authenticationgoogle-authenticatortwo-factor-authenticationhotp
mui/material-ui
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the Slider component within the Material UI library. Their work involved adding the component's React and Less files, modifying its functionality to include click-to-update and drag-based value changes, and integrating react-draggable to enable the slider's handle movement. These changes included updates to component styling and error message handling.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
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