Zak Lee
Member Of Technical Staff at AI Lab
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolZak Lee is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building production systems across fintech, travel tech, security, and AI. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at an AI Lab in San Francisco, he has led platform and supply engineering teams, scaling credit-data systems and HR/pay product platforms. He combines hands-on full-stack development—demonstrated by contributions to an Anthropic demo app and Streamlit UX improvements—with people leadership roles up to Senior Engineering Manager. His background spans python-heavy tooling, NLP platforms for chatbots, IoT and malware-remediation clients, and geo-services, reflecting broad technical versatility. Known for improving developer experience and operational reliability, he gravitates toward projects that turn complex data flows into usable products. Trained in geography at the University of Washington, he brings a systems-thinking perspective to distributed data and user-facing services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Geography, BA, Geography at University of Washington
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Github Skills (14)
streamlit10
api10
ant10
python10
pytest9
testing9
apidoc9
bash8
user-interface8
githubaction-workflow7
cicd7
dockers7
docker7
github-ci7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
A collection of projects designed to help developers quickly get started with building deployable applications using the Anthropic API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 55 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Zak primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a demo application leveraging the Anthropic API. Their work included initializing new features, such as a computer use demo, and fixing issues. They also updated the SDK version, integrated new tools, refined error handling, and improved the user experience within the Streamlit interface. Furthermore, they implemented enhancements related to the x11vnc setup for the demo.
neednova/mocha-reporter
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Mocha reporter, enhanced.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reportertestingjavascriptmocha-reportermocha
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