Summary
Terence Lei is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building end-to-end web and mobile applications, currently driving platform and product work at Google. He progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Google since 2013, contributing to mobile, backend, and connectivity features (including work on Google Wallet and BLE/WiFi copresence). Terence has a track record of rapid delivery from his LinkedIn incubator experience—leading teams that shipped multiple mobile and web apps in weeks—and deep hands-on experience across Android, backend services, and hardware-adjacent integrations. A Waterloo-trained software engineer, he blends pragmatic engineering with systems-level thinking and a history of experimenting with Bluetooth beacon hardware and geolocation to solve real-world mobile challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lisgar Collegiate Institute
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese