Kenneth Lee
Investor at VU Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2019 - Current
Tech builder, leader & founder
Venture Investor
2020
VU Venture Partners is a multi-sector and multi-stage venture capital fund and is a scalable venture capital fund platform.
Head Of Engineering
2021 - 2022
Data Engineering, Business Operations
2018 - 2019
I built a team that owned all the essential business and market health metrics for the company. Our major accomplishment included "Booking", the new golden metric which 1. Put the company IPO ready 2. Gave people the mean to track everything (including FP&A line items, Growth and R&D) base on this KPI
Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.
Co-Founder & CTO
2017 - 2018
Bootstrapped the engineering effort, built the team and launched ClanHQ (http://clanhq.com), a free chat app and network used by mobile gamers to dominate alliance competitions. Accomplishments: • Everyone (including interns) in the team write code from front-end to back-end • Everything is reactive - realtime notifications, messaging, prestige scores and all kinds of status updates are synchronized. What you see is what others see!
Head of Game Science
2015 - 2017
Built games, engineering and game science team to support a family of mobile games including: • Essential micro services to support single sign on, personas, game features, growth hacks and analytics • Distributed player-vs-player engine for realtime player communications and game data exchange
Director of Growth and Analytics
2012 - 2014
• Rebuilt Growth and Analytics • Delivered Data Products • Built Data Engineering and Science Team
Engineering Manager/Lead Engineer (Analytics)
2011 - 2012
• Created scoring pipeline that processed Facebook users in our network • Rebuilt Topic detection system for influencers • Built and ran three high performance engineering teams 1. Growth & Analytics Team 2. Data Warehouse & Analytics 3. Perks
Klout is an application that measures and ranks its users according to online social influence by using social media analytics.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from ff Venture Capital, DNX Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Idealab, Tuesday Capital, Zelkova Ventures, ff Venture Capital, IVP, Paige Craig and Venrock.
Principal Architect
2010 - 2011
• Rebuilt the data processing pipeline around Hadoop ecosystem • Defined and implemented data quality and SLAs
Getjar is a mobile phone application store that provides personalized app recommendations.
Raised $42,000,000.00 from Accel and Tiger Global Management.
Senior Software Engineer
2009 - 2010
Designed and developed high performance, distributed (Hadoop) data pipeline including software, tools and architecture for real estate listings acquisition, processing and validation
Trulia is a home and neighborhood site for buyers and renters to find homes and neighborhoods across the United States.
Raised $255,100,000.00 from Craft Ventures.
Education
BS
1985 - 1988