Samuel Lee
Senior NPI Operations Program Manager - Machine Learning
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Lee is a Senior NPI Operations Program Manager specializing in machine learning hardware programs, currently leading cross-functional ML operations at Google. With roughly 10 years in program and engineering management and 15 years of broader operations experience, he has repeatedly taken products from concept to manufacturing—ranging from VR prototypes that helped secure Series B funding to consumer electronics launches like Jawbone’s JAMBOX and ERA. He blends a strong technical foundation in computer vision, image processing and machine learning (M.S./B.S. in related fields) with an MBA in Finance, enabling data-driven prioritization of cost, schedule and risk. Samuel’s background includes implementing PLM and PD integrations for startups and creating automation-ready media authoring pipelines early in his career, showing a knack for tooling and process design that scales. Based in California, he excels at real-time global issue resolution and manufacturing ramp planning across hardware-software boundaries. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic operator who turns complex technical requirements into manufacturable, investor-ready products.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
English, Spanish, Korean
Github Skills (26)
bitmap10
single-file10
file-format10
lstm10
tesseract10
cpp10
ocr9
ocr-engine9
aiobotocore9
machine-learning8
keyboard8
macos-sierra7
karabiner7
backend7
aws6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prodeveloper0/tesseract
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
ocr-engineocrtesseract
prodeveloper0/liteCV
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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