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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 – Present

JTaurusPartners 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 2025

SIRO 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 2024

Cue 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 2023

Cue 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 2020

Nanoscale 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 2020

UCSD 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 2020

The 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