Jennie Lees
Engineering Manager at Google DeepMind
Santa Monica, California, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJennie Lees is an engineering manager with 12+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, games, and AI products, currently leading engineering at DeepMind in London. She has shipped high-profile titles and platforms including VALORANT and Star Wars: Hunters and has deep hands-on experience with Go microservices, high-throughput sync systems, and developer tooling. A habitual team-builder and coach, Jennie focuses on organizational health, interview and onboarding processes, and levelling up engineers while staying technically engaged. She champions diversity and inclusion as a core management practice—designing company-wide workshops and refusing to speak at events without inclusive codes of conduct. Her background spans founding an AI startup from PhD research to shipping festival-scale sentiment products, teaching software engineering, and shaping large-scale live-ops and platform reliability.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Computer Science, MA, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (16)
envelope10
python-bindings10
gmail-api10
imap9
smtp9
api-platform9
api8
python7
ruby7
vscode3
flask3
go-language3
vscode-extension3
sqlalchemy2
golang2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jennielees/leagueoflegends-python
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 10 months
apipythonapi-wrapperlegendsleague
jennielees/jump
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 day
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