# Kai Boon Ee

> Staff Software Engineer at Brex

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

👨‍💻 Staff Engineer @ Brex | Building AI products | Ex-Google | Hiking, travel, food | https://www.eekaiboon.com

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Brex
Jan 2021 – Present

### Tech Lead Manager (Search and Detection Team) @ Chronicle
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Responsible for development and launch of Chronicle Detect, a threat detection solution built on the power of Google’s infrastructure (such as BigQuery and Spanner) to help enterprises identify threats.
- Drive new product features end-to-end from requirement gathering through participation in customer calls and discussions with the product and design team, setting technical direction, to launch and iterate the features with customers.
- Model strong teamwork and collaboration skills and continuously focus on process improvement to address the team’s needs.
- Tech lead for a team of 14 engineers and manager for 4 of them. Mentor engineers on the team through regular guiding feedback, helping them advance in their careers.

### Senior Software Engineer (Data Science Team) @ Chronicle
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Founding engineer of the data science team which is responsible for enriching our product offering through application of machine learning.
- Design and implement a machine learning pipeline using TensorFlow for classifying raw log to streamline the customer ingestion pipeline.
- Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for setting up and managing machine learning pipeline (from data engineering to model training and serving).

### Senior Software Engineer (Collection and Ingestion Team) @ Chronicle
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- First 10 engineers hired by Chronicle.
- Founding engineer of the collection and ingestion team which is responsible for bringing corporate security telemetries from customers to Chronicle, a security analytics platform.
- Design and implement the first version of external facing ingestion APIs that enable high volume ingestion of customer data into Chronicle.
- Responsible for productionization, scaling, reliability, and security of ingestion related infrastructure.
- Drive customer adoption of our product by enabling partnership of our product with other vendors through open source contribution to our vendors’ Github.
- Foster and exemplify engineering culture as the team grows (e.g. author the engineering culture doc).

### Software Engineer @ X, the moonshot factory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Work on X project which graduated into Chronicle.

### Software Engineer (API Infrastructure Team) @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
- API infrastructure team provides infrastructure for all Google teams to build APIs.
- Migrate legacy stack to a Google internal microservice framework with zero production down time.
- Improve the reliability (by enforcing read/write consistency) and performance (few magnitude of latency improvement) of various API infrastructure.
- Serve in the tier 1 (5 min response time) on-call rotation before transitioning the on-call work to SRE team.

### Software Engineer (Bloomberg Law Search Team) @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
- Bloomberg Law is an online legal research platform. Search and automation team is responsible for the core search functionality provided on the platform. 
- Core contributor for transitioning the search infrastructure from 3rd party search engine to Solr, open source search engine.
- Design and implement the indexing pipeline which supports near real-time data transformation and ingestion into search engine.
- Design and implement the integration and load testing framework for the new search engine.

### Digital Engineer Intern @ Keithley Instruments
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Intern with Soft-Intellectual Property (Soft-IP) team @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Penang Design Center, Malaysia
• Involved in Perl scripting automation


## Education
### B.S.E in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eekaiboon
- Portfolio: https://eekaiboon.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12