Who am I?

Personal Info

Chris Lee

Dedicated professional workes at LinkedIn with expertise in Meatadata Infrastructure
plus five-year Python, Java, Shell Script programming experiences •
Co-Founder & Innovation Project Leader @ xVReal •
Master of Information Networking Student @ Carnegie Mellon University
IRONMAN Addict •

My Professional Background

Work Experience

2018 May - PRESENT

Software Development Engineer

LinkedIn INC

Job Highlights

I work on LinkedIn metadata infrastructure to meet the demands of the ever-growing big data ecosystem..

Generalized Metadata Search & Discovery Platform.

♦ Scaled more than 16 data platforms in the metadata ingestion pipeline with the pub-sub or pull model.
♦ Launched the opens source project - LinkedIn Data Hub as an active contributor and issue solver.
♦ Facilitated LinkedIn LDAP general metadata store as a source of truth for corporation users and groups lookup.

I joined LinkedIn cloud management platform to simplify the platform development cycle within LinkedIn. This newly automated process improves and shortens the development experience, giving more control to application developers at LinkedIn.

Fast Responsive and High Scalable Cloud Management Platform for Building the Seamless Data Infrastructure.

♦ Implemented database promotion feature into SDK for reducing 25% platform developing efforts.
♦ Rearchitected the anti-abuse platform - Fuse with the self-integration framework in the minimal deployable package.
♦ Escalated 8x data infrastructure active users through optimizing the maintainability, operability, and extensibility.

2013 September - 2017 August

Co-Founder &
Innovation Project Leader

xVReal INC

Job Highlights

I founded xVReal to make medical things incredibly user-friendly by creating intuitive, technology-driven solutions from product design to consulting services that have a positive impact on people’s lives—whether they’re children, adults, doctors or patients. For us, that means perfecting those small details that touch our customers in their day-to-day lives.

Facial Recognition Embedded Checkout-Free Store to Accelerate Customers’ Buying Process

♦ Reduced the time of payment to 30% via autonomous emotion detection in the robust finite state machine.
♦ Created the consumer-friendly front-end with an easy-to-use OpenCV UI and fast access MongoDB.
♦ Selected as the top 3% Artificial Intelligence technology project leader by Sinovation Ventures, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee.

Real-time k-NN Machine Learning Based Emotion Classifier for Precisely Enhancing UX

♦ Represented Taiwan to win the first prize out of 16 top startups in the multimedia entrepreneur competition.
♦ Led a 6-people team and delivered 500-participants clinical trial to fulfill the medical grade specification.
♦ Raised $5 million strategic partner fund from Morningside Ventures and granted more than 6 patents.

2013 September - 2016 September

Senior Systems
Software Engineer

ADVANTECH Inc.

Job Highlights

I served obligatory military services in Advantech’s Network Systems and Platforms Group for providing a wide range of performance, throughput, architecture and format choices to help equipment manufacturers, operators and service providers build their unique solutions on a consistent product line without sacrificing the economy of scale offered by standard off the shelf products.

Next-Generation High Performance Networking and Communication System (ATCA)

♦ Facilitated the automation utilities to increase 25% productivity in system verification and function validation.
♦ Provided networking system integration services to help secure Fortinet (FTNT) $10 million deal.
♦ Performed on-site debugging and software implementation to satisfy customers’ high-performance computing needs.

2011 September - 2013 June

Graduate Student
Researcher

National Taiwan University

Job Highlights

I conducted my researches with an emphasis on artificial neutral network, digital signal processing, and cryptography in the National Taiwan University and NTU Hospital Telehealth Center, where focused on a combination of software interface development and digital circuit design in the course of developing mobile healthcare system.

The 1st generation computer-aided diagnostic mobile healthcare system in NTU Hospital

♦ Established a data collection interface for building a human vital signs database of high academic research value.
♦ Scored 8.65 on the 9-point user interaction satisfaction scale in NTU Hospital clinical trial.
♦ Complied with FDA 510k design process and incorporated with Continua® standard for information interoperability.

My Education

Education

2017 September - present

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science in Information Networking

GPA: 3.6/4.0; 144 units


♦ Expected to graduate in Dec. 2018
♦ Selected Courses: Computer Network, Cloud Computing, IoT Computing, Deep Learning, Computer Security, HCI.

2011 September - 2013 June

National Taiwan Univerity

Master of Science in Electronics Engineering

GPA: 3.8/4.0; 36 credits


♦ Thesis: “Internet of Medical Things - An FDA Design Process Compliant Digital Mobile Healthcare System”
♦ Publication: “Wireless Platform and Cloud System for AVF Stenosis Monitoring,” in IEEE EMBS, August 2014.
♦ Selected as the representative showcase for the College of EECS in NTU Gallery of History.

What I’ve been recognized

Honors & Awards

1st Prize in Multimedia Entrepreneur Competition

December 2016 | China

♦ Represented Taiwan to win the first prize out of 16 top startups in the multimedia entrepreneur competition.
xVReal—“Real-Time Emotion Recognition for Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences”.

IRONMAN 140.6 Miles Finisher

October 2016, March 2015 | Penghu Taiwan

♦ Executed scientific training program with my research topic "Digital Mobile Healthcare System" to accomplish swim, cycle, and run courses.
♦ Proved the potential ability of healthcare toward fitness field and won the 2nd Place in 70.3 Miles Triathlon as well.

Invited Speaker & Mentor

July, September 2015 | IEEE MTT-S Wireless Technologies for Biomedical and Healthcare Applications, NTU Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics Innovation Hackathon

♦ Boosted digital technologies as well as MTT-S international exchanges and collaborations.
♦ Advised hackathon members from design-thinking perspective to solution demonstration.

Conference Paper

August 2014 | IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference Management System

♦ Published research papers in the field of Cardiovascular, Therapeutic System Engineering and Telemedicine.
♦ Wen-Ting Lee et al., “Wireless Platform and Cloud System for AVF Stenosis Monitoring,” in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 2014.

National Taiwan University Presidential Award

July 2008, July 2009 | National Taiwan University

♦ Ranked in the 2nd place.
♦ Awarded to the top 5% students in terms of final GPA for that semester.

Representative Showcase for NTU EECS & Conference Live Demo

September 2013 | NTU Gallery of History, IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference

♦ Established 1st generation synchronized telehealth infrastructure for National Taiwan University Hospital.
♦ Wen-Ting Lee, “An FDA Design Process Compliant Digital Healthcare System (符合FDA設計流程之遠距健康照護系統),” M.S. Thesis, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, July 2013.

What I’m best at

Skills & Interests

Solutions

Systems Infrastructure 95%
Rapid Prototyping 90%
Mobile Application Development 88%
Embedded System Development 85%
Full Stack Development 77%
Data Analysis and Modeling 68%

Language Skills

Mandarin
Native
English
Fluent
Japanese
Basic

Hobbies & Interests

  • pool Swim

    pool Swim
  • Cycle

    Cycle

  • Run

    Run

  • fitness_center Fitness

    fitness_center Fitness

  • Photography

    Photography

  • Guitar

    Guitar

  • Movies

    Movies

  • Travel

    Travel

My latest works

Portfolio

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    k-NN Based VR Experiences Enhancer

    Systems

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    AES-Standard Wireless SoC

    Systems

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    Energy-Efficient Mobile ECG

    Systems

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    Diagnostic Mobile Healthcare

    Algorithms

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    Facial Recognition Front-End

    Algorithms

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    Checkout-Free Store

    Algorithms

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    AVF Sound Monitor

    Applications

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    Clinical User Trail

    Applications

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    FDA & Continua Compatible

    Applications