Staff Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-impact, complex technical projects across cross-functional teams. Expert in modernizing legacy systems, driving feature launches, and improving developer productivity by implementing scalable engineering solutions. Recognized for mentoring engineers, aligning stakeholders, and translating strategic vision into measurable results.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer DTEX Systems Sep 2024 - Present

Delivered the OpenSearch Dashboards migration for DAS 7.0.0 FedRAMP, meeting ATO requirements, removing a critical launch blocker, and driving upstream fixes through strategic collaboration with AWS/OpenSearch engineering.
Led delivery of the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature, owning UI/UX workflows, data model and API design, and cross-team alignment to enable a major go-to-market initiative.
Increased developer productivity by 20% through local-development tooling and automation that accelerated dev/test cycles; recognized as a key driver of engineering velocity improvements.

Senior Technical Lead Cisco Systems, Inc. Aug 2019 - Apr 2024

Drive high-level/detailed technical designs and facilitate design reviews in the Onboarding Experience project that helps customers onboard in 30 minutes.
Promote clean and maintainable code to facilitate collaboration among US, European, and Indian engineering teams.
Work with Engineers, Directors, Architects, PM, and UX to establish solution requirements and devise technical approaches for high-demand projects.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to their growth of becoming feature owners.
Initiated AngularJS-to-React migration to address unsupported vulnerabilities, introduced the Cypress testing framework, and accelerated test development by 50%.

Senior Software Engineer Tico Co., Ltd. Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

Oversee all software development projects and ensure multiple on-time releases.
Improve message loading time by 60%.
Enforce efficient coding style. Reduce the codebase size by 30%.

Co-founder / CTO Popup Technology Co., Ltd. Apr 2016 - Oct 2018

Interview and hire a talented 5-person team from scratch.
Carry out product demo sessions in regional events that contribute to 10% of new users.
Implement Scrum. Improve team productivity by 30%.
Deliver on-demand features that yield 100% revenue growth.

Senior Engineer Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd. Dec 2013 - Feb 2015

iOS Developer AXIM Communications, Inc. Dec 2011 - Aug 2012

Education

University of California, San Diego M. E. Electrical Engineering Sep 2006 - Jun 2008

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B. S. Electrical Engineering Sep 2003 - Dec 2005

Certificates

Neural Networks and Deep Learning Coursera Dec 2023

Neural Networks Regularization and Optimization Coursera Jan 2024

Skills

Frontend

React, AngularJS, TypeScript, Cypress, Jest, Protractor, Karma, HTML, CSS, Git, Webpack, React Native, Objective-C

Backend

Ruby on Rails, Python, Django, Node.js, MongoDB, Go, Golang, GraphQL, SQL, Docker, Podman, Jenkins

Leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration, Engineering Management, Project Management, Leadership, Problem Solving

Tony Lee