Joel Wee
Software Engineer at DeepMind
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoel Wee is a software engineer with 8 years’ experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently working on infrastructure to scale large models at DeepMind. He has production experience managing thousands of Kafka clusters at AWS, improving automated self-healing and zero-downtime updates to raise operational success from 99% to 99.9%. A Cambridge-trained mathematician, Joel combines strong systems engineering with DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the LLVM project’s MLIR Bazel build and dependency fixes. His background spans backend services, cloud operations, and full-stack projects from Python/React products to infrastructure tooling, and he brings practical, reliability-focused thinking informed by prior leadership roles in the Singapore Armed Forces.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Mathematics, Mathematics, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Mathematics, Mathematics, First Class Honours at University of CambridgeHigh School, High School at St. Andrew's Junior College, Singapore
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
build-system10
mlr10
bazel10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
llvm8
azure6
msbuild6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
llvm/llvm-project
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Joel primarily contributed to build system configuration and dependency management within the MLIR project, specifically targeting Bazel. Their commits focused on resolving build failures, updating dependencies, and ensuring compatibility with the build environment. These changes involved modifications to the Bazel build files, and also included fixes for clang and libc build related issues.
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JoelWee/DevOps-Course-Starter
May 2020 - May 2021
Starter project for the DevOps Engineering course exercise
Contributions:4 reviews, 24 PRs, 106 pushes in 1 year
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