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    Jing Lee

    Jing Lee

    Need Scalability? Worked at @appnexus, @blip-2,@jetsetter,@rent-the-runway @patreon•. 3 decades of infra/techops, 1.5 years of engineering recruiting.

    Engineering Manager New York City Cornell University '93
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    Experience
    Patreon
    Patreon
    Engineering Recruiter 2021 - 2022 (11 months)
    Getting the best engineering talent into Patreon.
    Reconstituted and grew the Infrastructure team (SRE, DBRE, DevX) , as well as hired folks into Corporate IT, Platform,... more Payments as well as Growth teams.
    Part of the team that grew the Engineering team from ~70 headcount to 140 inside of 6 months.
    Clear Talent
    Clear Talent
    Principal 2021 (6 months)
    Trying my hand at engineering recruiting (moving up the interview funnel from being the infra-y portion of the engineering interview gauntlet). Learning how to get butts... more in seats. Mostly helped out with 2 clients - Headway (mental health), and Viam (robotics). Doubled the company size at Viam from 13 => 26 inside of 3 months.
    Clear Talent was acquired by Patreon in August 2021.
    DriveWealth
    DriveWealth
    head of devops 2020 - 2021 (7 months)
    all things devops for a stock trading platform that is the trading backend for Square Cashapp, Revolut, and many others. 1.9B AUM when I joined. 5.5B AUM when i left. Valuation... more went up 34x during the 8 months I was there.
    Care/of
    Care/of
    Staff Engineer 2018 - 2020 (about 1 year)
    - All things technical operations at Care/of, an early stage
    direct-to-consumer supplement subscription service.
    - Created comprehensive internal/external monitoring... more for
    consumer-facing site, and backend fulfillment environment
    - Additional fulfillment center networking buildout of 20,000 sq
    ft of additional space under tight deadlines to be ready for new
    product launch.
    - Researched requisite infrastructure/process changes required
    for future HIPAA compliance
    - Actively managed technical operations spend prior to
    successful Series C capital raise.

    Technologies in play: Heroku, postgres, memcached, redis, AWS, Raspbian, Datadog, Sentry
    Yieldmo
    Yieldmo
    Systems Engineering 2017 - 2018 (about 1 year)
    - All thngs technical operations at Yieldmo, a mobile adtech
    startup with the 4th largest mobile user footprint
    - Managed a 400 server environment hosted on AWS.
    -... more Migration to Snowflake, resulting in the deprecation of an
    internally-run >100+ node hadoop cluster
    CDN bakeoff/pricing negotiation (resulting in 66% savings)

    Technologies in play: ubuntu, tomcat, memcached, hadoop, aurora, vpc, s3, akamai
    Teachers Pay Teachers
    Teachers Pay Teachers
    Systems Engineering 2015 - 2017 (over 1 year)
    - Assisted in the move of the hosting environment (~140 servers) from Softlayer to AWS.
    - Architecture review for new services spun into the AWS
    environment.
    - Load... more testing to determine appropriate footprint in AWS for
    sale months.
    - Spearheading move of site perimeter from AWS to CDN.

    Technologies in play: php, centos, memcached, redis, elixir, aurora, redshift, aws elb/alb, cakephp, vpc, s3, edgecast
    Rocketrip
    Rocketrip
    Systems Engineering 2014 - 2015 (over 1 year)
    - Handled all things technical operations at Rocketrip, an early
    stage startup in the business travel space.
    - Moved environment from Heroku into AWS
    - Interviewed... more all engineering candidates, growing the engineering team from 4 to 10.

    Technologies in play: zxtm, rabbitmq, redis, celery, mysql,
    memcached, django
    Rent The Runway
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    Rent The Runway
    Systems Engineering 2011 - 2014 (almost 3 years)
    - Handling all things technical operations at Rent the Runway,
    the leading high-end designer apparel and accessory rental service.
    - Pushed the transformation of the... more underlying technical platform
    from a Drupal monolith, to a geographically distributed SOA model.
    - Continuous cycle of identifying technology/infrastructure
    scale bottlenecks - maximum concurrent users successfully tested at 25k, ~30x the level of concurrency that was supportable before the site would crash prior to joining.

    Technology in place on start: Drupal, RHEL 5.x, Centos 5.x, multimaster, memcached, activemq
    Technologies introduced: mongo (replica set + sharded replica-set), rabbitmq, Stingray LB (zxtm).
    External Services: edgecast, catchpoint, aws, heroku, engineyard, openstack private cloud,
    Jetsetter
    Jetsetter
    Systems Engineering 2010 - 2011 (about 1 year)
    - Handling all things technical operations at Jetsetter, the
    travel vertical for Gilt Groupe
    - Revenue & site user growth: 17% m/m
    - Flash traffic which exhibits... more peaks at >10x of ordinary peak
    traffic

    Technologies: apache,lighttpd,tomcat,mysql,linux(RHEL & fedora), zeus zxtm, shell scripting, zabbix, capistrano, splunk, jenkins(fka Hudson), memcached, jira, solr, mongo, jira, fisheye, confluence. External Services: akamai, panther, CDNetworks, Gomez, Catchpoint, AWS.
    Pando Networks
    Exit
    Pando Networks
    Techops 2010 (3 months)
    Blip
    Blip
    Sr. Systems Administrator 2008 - 2009 (over 1 year)
    - Massively scaled strategic areas of blip.tv infrastructure.
    (in the face of 10% m/m growth - peak surpassing 100 million video views/month)
    - Monitoring/alerting set... more up for the entire blip.tv environment
    Search + select for: carrier neutral collocation, CDN, transit & negotiated highly favorable terms/prices.
    - Responsible for technical operations budget.
    - Migrated primary data center (including hot cutover of primary
    mysql database)

    Technologies: apache,mysql,linux (gentoo),mogilefs,squid,ffmpeg,shell scripting,cacti,nagios,zenoss,{cap/web}istrano,cisco,force10
    External Services: akamai,edgecast,panther,keynote,gomez,amazon aws
    (ec2,s3)
    Independent
    Independent
    Consultant 2007 (7 months)
    - Infrastructure Manager for AppNexus
    - Ops guy for Pica9
    - Developed revenue model/business plan for Yallery
    MobileSpring
    MobileSpring
    Network Security Manager 2000 - 2001 (4 months)
    Designed and implemented information security requirements for
    wireless text messaging interoperability product that today exchanges over 2 billion messages per day.
    Expression Engines
    Expression Engines
    Systems Engineering Consultant 2000 (6 months)
    Consulted as Director of Systems Engineering Led 14 member systems engineering team in building out a Expressionscalable fault-tolerant systems and network infrastructure
    MTV Interactive
    MTV Interactive
    Director of Systems Operations 1999 - 2000 (8 months)
    Managed systems team responsible for building and maintaining
    the systems infrastructure for the one of the largest music websites on the Internet achieving >99.95%... more systems availability.
    McKinsey
    McKinsey
    Consultant 1998 - 1999 (6 months)
    Served as information security expert to strengthen security
    on McKinsey's Internet-facing network resulting in a significantly
    reduced level of vulnerability.
    Provided... more global internetworking support for McKinsey's
    internal network of 84 field offices.
    Bertelsmann
    Bertelsmann
    Network Manager 1997 - 1998 (over 1 year)
    Created systems and network infrastructure as the lead systems
    administrator for Bertelsmann's E-commerce Competency Center.
    Designed and implemented systems and network... more infrastructure
    for Bertelsmann's $400 million e-commerce startup BOL.com in 1998.
    Provided corporate ISP/firewall services for Bertelsmann's
    North American publishing subsidiaries.
    Ingress Enterprises
    Ingress Enterprises
    Network/Systems Administrator 1996 - 1997 (about 1 year)
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    Blip, Rent The Runway, Rocketrip, Jetsetter, Ingress Enterprises, Bertelsmann, McKinsey, MTV Interactive, Expression Engines, MobileSpring, Independent, Pando Networks, Teachers Pay Teachers, Yieldmo, Care/of, DriveWealth, Clear Talent, Patreon
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    scaling systems/networks for consumer-facing high load internet sites. Prior companies have been in adtech, video, flash sales, and e-commerce.

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    Scalability Technical Operations Information Security Linux Unix MongoDB LAMP Ruby SQL MySQL Chef AWS API REST APIs AWS/EC2/ELB/S3/DynamoDB
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