Tim Lee
Software Engineer at Databricks
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Lee is a software engineer with eight years of experience specializing in systems and backend engineering, currently working on Databricks' Photon vectorized query execution engine. He has practical database internals expertise from contributions to CMU's BusTub educational RDBMS—implementing extendible hash tables, an LRU-K replacer, and related tests and documentation—which reflects a deep interest in buffer pool and page replacement strategies. His background includes applied systems work at NVIDIA and Microsoft, plus industry experience at NetBase Quid and Grindr, bridging academic rigor from a Carnegie Mellon Systems-focused master's with real-world production systems. Based in Bellevue, WA, Tim combines a strong research-adjacent foundation with hands-on engineering that favors performance-critical, memory- and I/O-sensitive infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Management, Bachelor's degree, Information Management at National Taiwan UniversityMaster's degree, Computational Data Science, Systems Concentration, Master's degree, Computational Data Science, Systems Concentration at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
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c-language10
cprogramming-language10
database10
dbm8
dbms8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/bustub
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The BusTub Relational Database Management System (Educational)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 8 commits, 17 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Tim focused on implementing and testing core database functionalities within the BusTub project. Their contributions include integrating an extendible hash table into the buffer pool manager and adding tests for it. They also added starter code and integrated an LRU-K replacer into the buffer pool manager, showcasing work on memory management and page replacement strategies. Furthermore, the user updated documentation based on code review feedback and improved existing docstrings for better understanding.
management-systemrelationaldbmsdatabase-management-systemrelational-database
timlee0119/Tank-War-Client
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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