Summary
Zack Lee is an experienced software engineer and AI practitioner with 11 years of cross-functional experience building full-stack products, research prototypes, and data-driven systems. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, he previously founded Playground Education to explore generative AI’s role in learning and served as Lead AI Engineer and first technical hire at Copy.ai, scaling production Next.js/TypeScript applications. His background blends causal inference and early transformer model productization at Indeed with hands-on data science and full-stack engineering at startups like Vinovest. Zack pairs research-oriented curiosity with product sensibility—he moves models from prototype to onboarding flows and analytics—and has a history of teaching and mentoring engineers. Based in New York, he combines engineering, research, and design instincts to tackle practical AI applications that improve user experience.
11 years of coding experience