Lee Liu
CTO, Co-Founder at idolforums.com
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLee Liu is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CTO with 11 years of startup leadership and two decades of engineering experience spanning Microsoft, Google, and NVIDIA to multiple successful ventures. As co-founder of Mezmo (formerly LogDNA) and Neurox, and now CTO of Minicart, he specializes in building scalable observability and AI infrastructure that serve both hyper-growth startups and Fortune 500 customers. He has repeatedly led product, architecture, and engineering teams through high-growth exits and enterprise integrations—Mezmo secured IBM Cloud partnership and raised over $100M under his technical stewardship. Lee’s background includes early web-scale work (founding Idolforums and JobLoft, and filing a patent during an NVIDIA internship), showing a blend of hands-on engineering, product intuition, and long-term community building. Based in San Francisco with a Commerce degree focused on IT management and YC founder credentials, he combines technical depth with strategic business acumen to turn complex systems into reliable, revenue-driving platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Founder at Mezmo (W15 YCGF18), Founder at Mezmo (W15 YCGF18) at Y CombinatorToronto Metropolitan University
Stackoverflow
2,001reputation
256kreached
123answers
3questions
azure
top-5%
Github Skills (78)
windows10
command-line-tool10
charts10
linux10
latency10
cli10
monitor10
agent10
logdna10
macos10
nodejs10
read-write10
bandwidth10
logger10
binaries10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
logdna/logdna-cli
Mar 2016 - Aug 2019
The LogDNA CLI allows you to signup for a new account and tail your server logs right from the command line.
Contributions:7 releases, 35 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 5 months
logdnasignuptaillog-analysisaccount
logdna/logdna-agent
Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
LogDNA Agent streams from log files to your LogDNA account. Works with Linux, Windows, and macOS Servers
Contributions:7 releases, 174 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 9 months
logdnamonitorlog-filesstreamslogging
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