Jae Lee
jyleesd@gmail.com | Chicago, IL
Technical leader who bridges regulated biotech with modern AI—setting direction, aligning teams, and shipping results. Scaled operations through a 27x revenue surge ($23M → $620M), led FDA submissions, and saved $25M+ in COGS—then pivoted to building production SaaS products, ML APIs, and GenAI systems.
Work Experience
Head of AI and Automation
May 2024 – PresentJTaurusPartners LLC | Remote
- •Advise on GenAI strategy, LLM fine-tuning, and data infrastructure modernization for enterprise clients
- •Architect RAG pipelines: OpenAI embeddings + vector search over 300k+ documents for enterprise knowledge retrieval
- •Ship production SaaS products: React/Next.js + Supabase + Cloudflare (photo management, life journaling, encrypted data vault)
- •Deploy ML APIs: LightGBM for image compression (36% faster), Llama 3.2-Vision for intelligent photo tagging
- •Build AI-powered desktop tools: Whisper STT, GPT agents, wake-word activation, real-time TTS
Director, Product Operations and Analytics
Sep 2024 – Nov 2025SIRO Diagnostics | Remote
- •Led data analytics and science team, aligning manufacturing and assay development around root cause analysis and continuous improvement
- •Architected centralized data pipeline unifying all analyses and scientific studies under a single source of truth
- •Deployed GenAI solutions (OpenAI LLMs, vector search) for 300k+ document semantic search and knowledge management
- •Engineered automated data pipelines with Docker/Kubernetes for data ingestion, traceability, and internal query systems
Staff Platform Engineer
Jul 2023 – May 2024Cue Health | Remote
- •Spearheaded technical transfer of multiplex assay products, orchestrating design reviews and validation protocols for FDA submission
- •Optimized signal processing algorithm via A/B testing, reducing false positive rates by 85% while maintaining diagnostic sensitivity
- •Deployed Python-based post-market surveillance engine handling 1M+ daily runtime logs, cutting incident triage time by 60%
Engineering Manager, Technical Operations
Sep 2020 – Jul 2023Cue Health | San Diego, CA
- •Stood up Technical Operations as a new department during a $481M DoD contract, defining the playbook that scaled output from 5k to 100k tests/day (20x)
- •Directed 12-person cross-functional team through 27x revenue growth ($23M → $618M), realigning priorities as scope evolved
- •Closed 300+ NCRs and 20 CAPAs; cut QC failure rate 50% and field defects 80%, saving $25M+ in COGS
- •Defined and owned data strategy end-to-end across R&D, manufacturing QC, and post-market surveillance
- •Fast-track promoted three times (Bioengineer → Sr. Bioengineer → Eng. Manager → Staff Platform Engineer)
Research Scientist
Jan 2020 – Sep 2020Nanoscale Bioengineering Lab, Sanford Consortium | San Diego, CA
- •Engineered polymeric nanocapsules (PNCs) to boost nucleic-acid cargo stability and target-cell uptake
- •Ran DOE-driven optimization extending PNC shelf life 3x with 50%+ improved transfection efficiency
Research Assistant
Sep 2018 – Jan 2020UCSD Biosensors Laboratory | San Diego, CA
- •Built Python algorithm fusing ARMA/PID filters with XGBoost for real-time blood-glucose estimates (45% accuracy boost, 25% latency reduction)
- •Delivered simulation platform adopted by lab's device partner for FDA-submission performance targets
Research Assistant
Jun 2017 – Jan 2020The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) | San Diego, CA
- •Co-authored Nature paper identifying PGRMC2 as first intracellular heme chaperone
- •Drove experimental design across CRISPR mutagenesis, RNA-seq, proteomics and in-vivo phenotyping
Galmozzi A, Kok B.P., Kim A.S., Montenegro-Burke J.R., Lee J.Y., et al. PGRMC2 is an Intracellular Heme Chaperone Critical for Adipocyte Function. Nature 576, 138-142 (2019)
Education
Bioengineering | Master of Science and Bachelor of Science
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | GPA: 4.00
Volt Alumni Scholarship, Alice M. Marriott Scholarship, Golden President's Volunteer Service Award, Certificate of Congressional Recognition