Jay Lee
Director Of Firmware Engineering at OCZ Technology
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Lee is a director-level firmware and embedded systems engineer based in San Jose with a strong academic foundation (BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University) and over two decades of experience focused on mobile OS, multimedia, storage, and firmware. Currently leading firmware engineering at OCZ Technology, he previously managed engineering teams at AMD and held senior technical leadership roles at UTStarcom and Mobile Media Tech. Jay blends hands-on firmware development with people leadership, driving cross-disciplinary teams to ship storage and mobile platform solutions. His background spans Windows Mobile and Linux mobile stacks as well as low-level storage and multimedia subsystems, giving him a rare combination of OS-level and hardware-near expertise. Notably, he has balanced corporate engineering management with continued technical depth—listed on GitHub as a senior software engineer at AMD—indicating ongoing engagement with code and system design. He is pragmatic, research-grounded, and adept at translating PhD-level rigor into production firmware that meets performance and reliability targets.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Engineering, PhD, Computer Engineering at Seoul National University
Github Skills (2)
occlusion10
ambient10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-CACAO
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Combined Adaptive Compute Ambient Occlusion (CACAO)
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 3 months
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