Summary
John Lee is a product-focused technologist with 12 years of experience building adtech and low-code platform products and a background in sociology research on social networks and collective problem solving. He has led product strategy for video ad serving, client-side SDKs, and audience guarantee workflows, and more recently owned platform services that enable next-generation HCM applications. Comfortable bridging research, engineering, and product, he drives persistence and data service roadmaps while advising application teams on practical integration patterns. Still an active coder, he builds small automation tools to weave together the web apps that organize his workday. Based in the NYC metro area, he also crafts custom hardwood furniture with his own studio, blending hands-on making with systems thinking. This combination of academic rigor, product leadership, and maker mentality helps him turn complex social and technical problems into usable, production-grade solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.Phil., Sociology, M.Phil., Sociology at Columbia University
B.S., Social and Decision Sciences, Statistics, Information and Decision Systems, B.S., Social and Decision Sciences, Statistics, Information and Decision Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English