Summary
Jay Lee is a backend-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale ML infrastructure and search systems, currently contributing at Meta after a multi-year tenure at Amazon. He architected the PV Search Datalake managing over 3.5 PB, improved search suggestions to achieve ~5ms latency and 37% higher clickthrough, and led semantic search pipelines that integrate LLMs. Prior roles at Bloomberg and AWS show a strong track record modernizing high-traffic systems, designing APIs, and delivering load-testing frameworks. Comfortable across C++, Python, TypeScript and distributed systems, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic product impact. An early robotics and IoT researcher, he brings a hardware-aware systems perspective that informs robust, efficient backend designs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech