Lei Chen
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolLei Chen is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Sunnyvale with seven years in cloud and infrastructure leadership at Google, building production-grade APIs and search services for Cloud Talent Solution, Retail API, Vertex AI Search and Gemini Enterprise. Rising through individual contributor roles to staff and now senior manager, Lei combines deep backend expertise with product-facing API design and large-scale infrastructure ownership. His background includes early backend work at Amazon and Shanda Games and a strong security and graphics academic foundation from Tsinghua University. Known for guiding cross-functional teams that operationalize ML-powered search and retail solutions, he blends practical engineering rigor with a focus on scalable, customer-facing systems. An engineer who still engages in technical strategy, Lei brings rare continuity across multiple generations of Google Cloud products.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (27)
kotlin10
google-workspace10
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
client-library10
python10
cdn10
terraform10
java10
ruby10
gcp10
google-cloud-run10
api10
google10
automl10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chenlei1216/python-docs-samples
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Code samples used on cloud.google.com
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 days
gcppythongoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
chenlei1216/python-retail
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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