James Lee
Founder at Path
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lee is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and shipping reliable, data-driven systems. He has led cross-functional teams from early-stage startups to high-growth marketplaces, driving core initiatives in personalization, payments, and telehealth while balancing hands-on engineering with people leadership. At Grow Therapy and Teachable he launched AI features and compliance-forward payments infrastructure; at Teachers Pay Teachers and Etsy he improved search relevancy and measurement systems that materially grew revenue. He favors pragmatic stacks (Elixir, Svelte, Swift, Postgres) and a “more signal, less noise” approach to product design, evident in his work creating lightweight platforms for creators and fitness studios. Based in Jersey City, he also revives civic organizations—spearheading Safe Streets JC toward VisionZero—bringing product rigor to community impact. He’s building Path, a smarter internet reader that applies AI to reduce distraction and support independent voices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Holmdel High SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA) Economics-Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics-Philosophy at Columbia UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science Natural Language Processing Lab, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science Natural Language Processing Lab at National Tsing Hua UniversityNew Jersey Governor's School for the Sciences
English, Chinese, Mandarin, Spanish
Github Skills (44)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
js10
nodejs10
macos10
elixir9
plug9
dialyzer9
blocks7
visual-programming-language6
http-server6
http6
parser6
proxy6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jimmybot/es6examples
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
jimmybot/typedtsv
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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