Joo Lee
Staff Software Engineer at Rivian
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJoo Lee is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of industry experience focused on accelerating large-scale workloads through efficient use of heterogeneous architectures. He blends deep academic training—a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech—with hands-on systems work at Microsoft, Samsung Semiconductor, and now Rivian, specializing in performance analysis, parallel programming tools, and hardware/software co‑optimization. Joo’s background includes research internships at ARM, AMD, and Argonne National Laboratory, giving him a rare combination of semiconductor, tooling, and HPC perspectives. Known for translating performance research into production-ready optimizations, he routinely bridges low-level microarchitecture understanding with practical software engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s equally comfortable leading technical teams and diving into profiling and compiler-level tweaks. An under-the-radar strength is his steady track record of moving research prototypes into shipped features across both consumer and enterprise platforms.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master's degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Seoul National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Korean, English
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Github Skills (32)
anchor10
token-list10
metaplex10
solana10
facial-recognition8
face8
emotion-recognition7
blockchain7
face-recognition7
smart-contracts7
openface6
embedding6
deep-learning6
facenet6
forum6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LP-Finance-Inc/twamm
May 2023 - Jan 2024
LP Finance TWAMM
Contributions:28 PRs, 95 pushes, 27 branches in 8 months
aperire/openbrowser-client
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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