# Adrian L.

> Staff Software Engineer @ Discord

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adrianl1

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Hipcamp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Engineer @ Medium.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech lead of Payments team building out a robust 2-way payments system with a versatile subscription system integrated with multiple payment gateways and a scalable payout system

Previously:
Teach lead of Conversion team building out features such as meter, paywall, and a migration of the article page to React

Senior software engineer:
- Architect and built the email infrastructure
- Rebuilt, improved, and iterated on Medium daily digest resulting in significant improvements on open and click rates
- Spearheaded performance tracing project, including product research, initial conversations with multiple companies, Lightstep integration, POC, and tracing integration on critical paths
- Championed search, including integration with third-party and search web interface development
- Led Medium’s GDPR project to be GDPR compliant
- Architect and developed email automation system with personalized content

### Frontend Software Engineer @ SHIFT
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Santa Monica, CA
- Prototype and develop SHIFT platform, a collaboration, planning and marketing single page application
  - Create composer with @mention and attachment features using Javascript and AngularJS
  - Maintain and optimize client-side database to improve overall application performance
  - Create text service module to render, extract and format urls, @mentions, emails and other text
- Prototype and develop SHIFT Media Manager, a Facebook advertising marketing application
- Optimize SHIFT platform by reducing initial load time and requests, memory and CPU usage
- Develop frontend build tools with Bower and Grunt to improve frontend development
- Integrate Karma and Protractor to run unit and e2e tests on applications
Integrate Travis CI and Suacelabs for more efficient build processes and to run cross-browser tests

### Application Development Intern @ Ning
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Palo Alto
- Create analytics tool to track users’ clicks, render useful graphs and plots for internal and customers use
- Work with application development team on jQuery upgrade and IE9 compatible
- Fix and improve frontend interfaces on the platform


## Education
### BS in Computer Science and Engineering
UCLA


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adrianlee44
- Website: http://www.adrianlee.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-01