Timothy Lee
Senior Product Design Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Lee is a hands-on Senior Product Design Engineer with 14 years of mechanical and product design experience across Apple and Google, taking concepts from early prototypes through production, testing, and manufacturing. He blends deep mechanical engineering rigor (MS and BS from Arizona State) with product leadership, having managed design teams at Apple before returning to a senior individual-contributor role at Google. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments, he’s known for getting “hands dirty” on mechanisms and practical engineering trade-offs. An avid lifehacker, cyclist, runner, and coffee enthusiast, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving data retrieval and configurability in a popular PTT web crawler—reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and developer-friendly features.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, M.S., Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
python10
webscraping10
http-request10
api-design9
json9
file-handling8
argparse8
args8
argument-parsing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwlin/ptt-web-crawler
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
PTT 網路版爬蟲
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Timothy primarily refactored and enhanced the PTT web crawler's functionality. They added the ability to include the article URL in the results and customize the storage path. Furthermore, the user implemented the ability to set a custom request timeout and changed the `get` function to return file content instead of printing, improving data handling. These changes focused on improving data retrieval and storage, alongside increasing configuration flexibility.
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