# Jaewon Lee

> SWE @ Twitch | Prev @ TikTok | EECS & ORMS @ UC Berkeley

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jaewon

💼 SWE @ Twitch, Prev @ TikTok
🎓 B.S. EECS & B.A. ORMS @ UC Berkeley
🧠 Research in large reasoning models and NLP
🚀 Search engines, recommendation systems, and distributed systems
🔮 Bridging tech and human interaction to shape the future
💡 Entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on building impactful solutions
🌐 Let's connect!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
• on demand platforms
• clips, vods, & video infra

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Jan 2025 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
• undergraduate researcher at sunblaze collaborators under professor dawn song
• conduct research in large reasoning models under direct supervision of dr. xuandong zhao

### CS 168 Head TA @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States
• teach internet architecture
• host weekly discussion sections and office hours
• answer student questions

### CS 168 TA @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
• teach internet architecture
• host weekly discussion sections and office hours
• answer student questions

### Web Director @ Berkeley Codeology
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States
• https://codeology.studentorg.berkeley.edu/
• lead team of 6 developers
• refactor codebase and implement cicd pipeline

### Technical Director @ Berkeley Codeology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
• oversee all projects in codeology
• secure contracts with clients

### Project Leader @ Berkeley Codeology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• create cv project for hci
• lead team of 4 developers

### Software Developer @ Berkeley Codeology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• finetune gpt3
• backend on ethereum using solidity for smart contracts
• frontend on ethers.js

### Search Engine SWE Intern @ TikTok
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
• optimize search engine
• reduce p99

### INFO 159 TA @ UC Berkeley School of Information
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
• write, review, and publish homework assignments and exams
• hold weekly 2 hour weekly office hours open to over 250 students

### CTO @ Gravity Platforms Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
• fight hyper-polarization in the age of doom-scrolling
• build recommendation engine and initial infrastructure

### Senator and Finance Chair @ Regents'​ and Chancellor's Scholars Association (RCSA)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• manage money
• finance events and reimbursements

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Haas Neuroeconomics Lab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• undergraduate nlp researcher at the uc berkeley haas neuroeconomics lab
• conduct research in diachronic lexical semantic change under direct supervision of professor ming hsu

### LLM Research and SWE Intern @ Arta Finance
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
• build financial advisor copilot chatbot (”ArtaChat”)
• established a comprehensive e2e data pipeline
• fine-tune llms, including falcon 40b, mpt-7b, and llama 2, on proprietary dgx servers

### VP of Software Engineering and USA Representative @ Australasian Youth Cubesat Initiative
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
• launch a cubesat into orbit
• develop mission control software

### Webmaster @ UC Berkeley Decal Board
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States
• maintain uc berkeley's official decal website (https://decal.berkeley.edu/)
• lead a team of 8 to 10 developers from upe


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Operations Research and Management Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Law in History, and Cinematography
Yonsei University

### High School Diploma
Los Gatos High School

### Computer Science and Business
West Valley College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thejaewonlee
- Portfolio: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jaewonleecal/knowledge_cache/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11