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Ken (Kyumin) Lee
Senior AI Product Software Engineer
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Location: San Jose, California, United StatesApprox. Years of Experience: 12
Ken (Kyumin) Lee's Current Workplace
Speak
Company Size
51-300
Amount Raised
$11.0M
Speak is a language learning app that sets users on the path to fluency with the world’s most advanced AI tutor. Built on the core learning philosophy of getting users speaking out loud as much as possible, Speak's AI language-learning experience encourages dynamic two-way dialogue through personalized content and real-time speech recognition. Speak was founded by Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu in 2016 to democratize access to high quality language education through AI. Backed by Y Combinator, Open AI, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Matrix Partners and more, Speak is a series B startup with a global presence and offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, and Ljubljana. Featured by Apple as the ‘App of the Day’ and ‘Best New App’, Speak is hiring across the globe. Come join us as we teach the next billion people English and reinvent the way the world learns, staring with language!
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Notable Investors
Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Investo, JAM Fund, Justin Mateen
E-Learning
Speech Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Experience
Senior AI Product Software Engineer
Speak · Full-time
Oct 2023 - Present
1 yr 4 mos
Working on AI-powered language education tools, including AI Tutor (https://www.speak.com/blog/speak-gpt-4)
Health and well-being
Career Break
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
6 mos
medical leave
Software Engineer
Google · Full-time
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
1 yr 9 mos
Worked on an experimental augmented analytics project in Area 120, Google’s startup incubator. Technical lead on Revenue Intelligence team in Ads. Helped empower Google ads sellers with ML-powered data insights, unlocking billions of dollars of revenue annually Worked across the technical stack, from data pipelining to API development to complex enterprise frontend applications Skills: Web Applications · Problem Solving · Interactive Applications
Software Engineer
Dropbox · Full-time
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
1 yr 7 mos
Software Engineer on the Acquisition Foundation team - built a platform for non-technical users to build and launch dynamic websites at scale Software Engineer on the Data Infrastructure team - built an internal tool for data pipelining workflows, integrating with Apache Airflow Skills: Web Applications · Hooks · Problem Solving · Redux.js · Jest · Interactive Applications
Software Engineer
Brex · Full-time
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
6 mos
Frontend Engineer
Dropbox
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
1 yr 11 mos
Monetization and Growth team - building out A/B tests (adding millions of dollars of revenue), creating new web experiences to support multiple major product launches including Dropbox Professional, building Dropbox's automated test framework for ensuring SOX compliance Skills: Web Applications · Hooks · Problem Solving · Redux.js · Interactive Applications
Graduate Research Assistant - Bioinformatics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016
1 yr 5 mos
Bioinformatics MS program - worked as a Graduate Research Assistant. Collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente to build machine learning models to optimize healthcare outcomes and provide recommendations for clinical providers Skills: Problem Solving · Interactive Applications
ACT and SAT Tutor
Within Reach Educational Consultants
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
4 mos
One-on-one tutoring for high school students in SAT/ACT math, reading, and writing. Skills: Problem Solving
Freelance Developer
The Dedham Group
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
6 mos
Developed interactive dashboards using Microsoft Excel/Visual Basic. Dashboards automatically pulled data on key organizations in the pharmaceutical industry and displayed them in an intuitive, user-friendly format. Features included an automatically updating map to display geographic reach of organizations, an interactive event calendar, and exporting/printing relevant information to PDF format. Skills: Problem Solving · Interactive Applications
Technical Services
Epic
Oct 2013 - Oct 2014
1 yr 1 mo
Worked closely with hospital analyst teams (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Cincinnati Health, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center) to resolve issues, build new functionality, and guide through upgrades. Also involved in internal projects such as developing utilities, developing customer-requested fixes and enhancements, managing internal documentation, and creating reporting tools. Principal application was EpicCare Ambulatory, Epic's application dedicated to outpatient care. Other areas supported included Nurse Triage/Call Management, Haiku/Canto (Epic's mobile application for physicians), Analytics, Meaningful Use, and ICD-10. Major projects: - Meaningful Use: A stimulus program run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) incentivizing adoption of electronic health records. Regular reporting on a wide variety of metrics is required to prove that providers and hospitals are using the software in a "meaningful" way. Assisted with configuration, interpretation, and troubleshooting. Was the Epic lead for CHOP's and UC Health's Meaningful Use projects. - High-risk flu registry: Worked with CHOP on creating and refining a way to identify patients at a high risk for influenza and report on the population. Also helped guide creating decision-making tools for advising providers seeing these high-risk patients to immunize them for influenza. - Quest/LabCorp integration: Helped CHOP implement interfaces with Quest and LabCorp. With the interfaces, orders can be placed within Epic for laboratory tests to be performed at Quest and LabCorp, then the results will file back once complete. Assisted with configuration and troubleshooting, and worked extensively on development for requested fixes and enhancements to the functionality. Skills: Problem Solving
Intern
Ricoh
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
4 mos
Worked for Creation of Future Business department of the Ricoh Central Research Facility in Yokohama, Japan. Comparatively evaluated different analytical chemistry methods for applications in breath analysis. Skills: Problem Solving
MIT
May 2010 - Aug 2012
UROP - Hamel Laboratory and MIT Energy Initiative
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
3 mos
- Project: Kinetics of sorghum starch hydrolysis - Researched optimization of glucose yield from enzymatic hydrolysis of sorghum starch and tested a device designed to measure glucose concentration in a solution in real-time. - Contributed to poster displayed at Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Conference in August 2012 in Washington, DC. Skills: Problem Solving
UROP - Sikes Laboratory
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
3 mos
- Project: Creating a photopolymerization-based detection system for low concentrations of heavy metal ions. - Helped created novel polymers that bind to heavy metal ions and initiate polymerization in a monomer when exposed to visible light. - Optimized polymer synthesis and polymerization procedure to increase sensitivity and accuracy. Skills: Problem Solving
UROP - Engelward Laboratory
May 2010 - Sep 2010
5 mos
- Project: Development of a high-throughput single cell DNA damage quantification assay - Dosed cells with X-ray radiation and other mutagens, imaged cells with fluorescent microscope, optimized parameters for assay, and improved automated image processing methods of assay results. Skills: Problem Solving
Education
  • 2009 - 2013
    Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical-Biological Engineering
  • 2017 - 2017
    App AcademyFull-Time Software Engineering Track
  • 2015 - 2016
    Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Bioinformatics
  • 2014 - 2014
    Harvard Extension SchoolComputer Science
  • 2005 - 2009
    Lexington High School