Summary
Mike Lei is a machine learning engineer and seasoned software leader with nearly three decades of experience building enterprise-grade systems in storage, data protection, and cloud platforms. He has led technical direction and large-scale architecture work at Veritas and Symantec, driving MSDP scale-up/scale-out, cloud integrations, and WORM-enabled protections. With roots in Java SE and Solaris at Sun and an MS in Computer Graphics, he blends low-level systems expertise with modern ML and data science interests. Based in Beijing, he focuses on bridging deep engineering rigor with applied machine learning to solve production data problems. Notably, his background spans both research in computer graphics and decades of production storage engineering—an uncommon mix that helps him design reliable, high-performance ML-enabled infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Graphics, MS, Computer Graphics at Northwestern Polytechnical University