Tiong Lee

• Lead the SQL Planning and Reflection teams, focusing on advanced query optimization and intelligent caching mechanisms to enhance data retrieval and analysis performance.
• Implement feature prioritization strategies that balance immediate business needs with long-term product vision, significantly improving the release cycle's efficiency.
• Initiate and oversee the adoption of company-wide Agile practices, leading to improvements in time-to-market for new features.
• Conduct technical workshops and one-on-one sessions to mentor managers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and empathetic leadership.

• Architected Samsung's Unified Data Warehouse (UDW), managing petabyte-scale data ingestion pipelines and introducing cutting-edge analytics processing techniques.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate disparate data sources from Samsung devices and advertising platforms, enhancing data accessibility and decision-making processes.
• Designed and implemented a robust data compliance and governance framework, ensuring adherence to global data protection regulations and optimizing data lifecycle management.
• Orchestrated the end-to-end development of Audience Builder, a profit-generating product that utilized advanced user segmentation algorithms

• Drove the technical vision and product roadmap, resulting in a 100% performance improvement of a columnar-based Spark SQL execution engine on TPC-DS benchmarks.
• Led the adoption of modern infrastructure management and automation tools, including Kubernetes and Terraform, to streamline deployment and scalability of services.
• Championed open-source contributions and engagement, positioning Qubical as a thought leader in big data processing and cloud-native applications.

• Conceptualized and delivered Ooyala IQ, a flagship analytics product, by leading a team in developing a high-throughput, low-latency OLAP engine on top of Apache Spark and Cassandra.
• Devised innovative batch and real-time data processing strategies, achieving sub-second analytic query responses on terabyte-scale datasets.
• Received the Peer-Applause Award for Innovation for spearheading the development of a predictive analytics model that significantly improved content recommendation accuracy.

Previous Roles:

• Cloud Architect, Vitria, Santa Clara, CA | August 2012 - August 2012 Designed a multi-tenant SaaS architecture for enterprise applications, enabling scalable event processing and efficient resource isolation.
• Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle, Redwood Shores, CA | August 2008 - August 2012 Led post-acquisition integration of ClearApp technology, enhancing Oracle's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) capabilities.
• Senior Software Engineer, ClearApp, Sunnyvale, CA | December 2004 - August 2008 Pioneered a novel No-SQL-like data repository and implemented a proprietary data compression algorithm, instrumental in the company's acquisition by Oracle.