Summary
Suchan Lee is a software engineer with a decade of experience building products at the intersection of systems, graphics, and mobile platforms, currently contributing at OpenAI after roles at Hex, Meta, and Palantir. He combines a strong academic foundation from Cornell (M.Eng. CS; BS Mechanical Eng. with CS minor) with hands-on experience in simulation, robotics research, and front-end tooling. Comfortable shipping both backend systems and user-facing interfaces, he has prototyped internal hiring and housing tools as well as research code that transferred simulated robot gaits to real hardware. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s particularly interested in Android and graphics technologies and learns quickly to close gaps between research prototypes and production-quality software. Colleagues describe him as industrious and intellectually curious—someone who treats each new project as a chance to expand his toolkit.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering Computer Science, Masters of Engineering Computer Science at Cornell University
Korean, French