Scott Lee

Seattle, WA | scott@whyi.net | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Professional Experience

Software Development Engineer II
Mar 2024 - Current
Amazon
Seattle, WA

AWS Partner Network Department of Amazon Web Services organization

  • Designed, implemented and maintaining the AWS Partner Seller Compensation dashboard, a SPA website to manage over 100k AWS contract details among over 2000 AWS Partners.
  • Business insights and KPIs, using Python, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, QuickSight, React JavaScript, AWS TypeScript CDK
  • Reduced API Latency from 1800ms to 1200ms using AWS SDK client and AWS STS credential caching, creating a more responsive customer experience
  • Developed a CI/CD pipeline to automate QuickSight dashboard and dataset migration across AWS accounts using Python and AWS Lambda, saving over 600 engineer hours with automated feature deployment
  • Identified an inaccurate user troubleshooting message and proposed and implemented a more descriptive error message, eliminating a 1-week customer support response time for timely issue resolution for all users
Lead Software Engineer
Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
Salesforce
Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

Developer Productivity & Experience Department of Tableau organization

  • Achieved operational excellence by leading the end-to-end design and implementation of an out-of-SLA bug tracking service.
  • Led discovery and migration of Tableau CI/CD pipelines from GitLab and TeamCity to Salesforce using GitHub and Jenkins.
  • Delivered in-depth build metrics analysis by spearheading the design and implementation of a build telemetry system.
  • Led optimization of Tableau server build time by dissecting Gradle source code and build scans, addressing key bottlenecks.
  • Participated in on-call rotation and provided customer support for the developer productivity tools.
Senior Software Engineer
May 2015 - Oct 2021
Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Commerce and Ecosystems, Marketplace Ingestion Experience Team

  • Designed, Implemented, and maintained APIs behind the self-serve Microsoft Partner Center.
  • Migrated classic cloud services to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
  • Containerized web roles into a docker image, configured with the right parameters to be deployed onto AKS.

Network Planning Team

  • Designed and implemented the front-end part of the Network Capacity Planning Workbench using Angular.js
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained high-fidelity Power BI reports: Network ROB (Rhythm of Business)

MSUtilization service Team

  • Tech-lead of the service to provide utilization and forecast of Azure products to capacity planners/managers.
  • Earned MCIO Role Model Award for enabling near real-time monitoring by delivering Redis cache layer of the service.
  • Participated in on-call rotation of the service, analyzing root cause of high severity alerts.
Senior Software Developer
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Aequitas Capital Management
Lake Oswego, OR

Worked on the Unigo.com venture – College review website

  • Designed and implemented the registration/login system of Unigo.com: Angular.Js frontend, ASP.NET MVC5 backend.
  • Implemented administrator-facing backend services to manage scholarships and universities data.
  • Integrated other websites into Unigo.com by utilizing server-to-server communication via RESTful APIs.
Software Development Engineer II
Sept 2013 - Apr 2014
Groupon
Seattle, WA

Designed and implemented the backend service of Getaways (Travel web-application).

  • Implemented backend Restful inventory service to support large-scale hotel data in Java, Ruby on Rails and MySQL.
  • Profiled and optimized performance of the backend service to minimize database queries and meet the KPI.
  • Agile methodologies – actively involved in the iterative planning meeting, standups and code reviews.
Software Engineer
Jul 2010 - Aug 2013
Intel
Hillsboro, OR

Core CAD Technologies, Design and Technology Solutions Division.

  • Rejuvenated an old C++ library to C++11, reducing the code base from 500KLOC to 300KLOC.
  • Led a small team of software engineers using pair programming and Kanban procedures.
  • Interacted with key stakeholders of the library to analyze, prioritize, and deliver software solutions.
  • Proactively improved the library by identifying performance hotspots and robustness issues in customers’ usages.
  • Research and development of 3D Delaunay meshing by reading and implementing research papers.
  • Created over 500 pages of a comprehensive manual with examples to train new users of the library.
  • Instructor of internal C++ class: Trained ~35 coworkers in Oregon and California.
Software Developer
Jan 2010 - Jun 2010
Wolfram Research
Champaign, IL
  • Improved import/export framework of 3D graphics file formats in Mathematica 8.
  • Designed and implemented import/export capability of VTK (Visualization Toolkit) file format.

Open Source Experience

Interactive incremental Delaunay triangulation
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
Sketchformer: 3D Mesh project on the web
Nov 2023 - Present

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science
Aug 2007 - Dec 2009
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
  • Area of specialization: Computer Graphics
  • Masters Project: Sketch Based Mesh Deformation
Bachelor of Engineering
Mar 2002 - Feb 2006
Gyeongju University
South Korea
  • Major: Information and Communication Science Program
  • Second Major: Computer Science Program