Stephen Lee
Senior Software Engineer - Payments Backend at OKX
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Lee is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in payments backend systems, currently driving payment platform architecture and scaling at OKX with nine years of engineering experience. He combines a Cognitive Science degree with a machine learning specialization and a CS minor to bring a data-informed, systems-thinking approach to payments, Web3 pay, and fiat on/off-ramp design. At OKX he led modular buy/sell systems, OpenAPI expansion, ACH onboarding with Plaid, and localized ramps for Turkey and Brazil—efforts that improved integration speed and global reliability. Comfortable across backend stacks and API design, he has a history of building pragmatic learning products and NLP-backed ad tooling earlier in his career. Based in San Jose, he maintains a GitHub presence and blends research-oriented thinking with production-grade engineering to solve complex cross-border payment problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoHong Kong International School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
javascript7
java5
fundamentals5
command-line-tool1
ide1
vscode1
chrome1
api1
vscode-extension1
chrome-extension1
golang1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ucsd-aacf/UCSD-AACF-Website
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:121 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
Hellboy1008/MATH_20C
Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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