# Michelle S Lee

> Software Engineer at Datadog

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michelleslee

Software engineer trying to learn more :)
Passionate about education and learning

https://github.com/michlee1337

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present
Building ways to share your data :)

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Driving product roadmap for Service Mesh component (Istio) and collaborating across stakeholders to ensure our product has reliable, safe, and observable traffic routing.
- Designed and implemented service mesh lifecycle management which gave infra operators a single pane of glass to manage upgrades and fallbacks with zero-downtime, rapid rollback, and failure isolation.
- Designed global organization API, policy and integration interfaces to extend GDCH deployments from single-zone to multi-zone to enable zonal failover and disaster recovery.
- Authored onboarding artifacts and leading onboarding of team members (6) onto the Service Mesh component.
- Volunteer teacher with WomenTeachingWomenToCode Google :)

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Designed and implemented SDK for creating and marshalling events between different structures and formats [C++]
- Worked with another team to integrate SDK into an event delivery system via Envoy

### Full-stack Developer Intern @ Hotokami.jp
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
- Set up simple tracking of key metrics (Google Analytics, MySQL, Python).
- Increased user registration 4x by reducing the registration process to one step using token verification (Ruby on Rails, MySQL). 
- Increased user engagement 6x by proposing, designing, and implementing various UX changes including map integration and goshuincho album feature (Google Maps API).

### CodeU Participant @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Designed and created a group-study organisation app with real time progress visualisations and a study-buddy recommendation system (Java, Google App Engine).
- Trained in industry best practices under Google mentors.

### Mobile Developer @ Liberty in North Korea
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Made their website responsive (mobile and tablet view)

### Project Co-Leader and Programmer @ The Last Mile
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Co-lead a team of 10 to ease the key limitation of teaching staff by building an offline, lightweight command line grading program ​(JavaScript)​.
- Built a web app that updates a progress visualisation in response to successful code submissions ​(Git Hooks).

### Project Co-Leader and Programmer @ Pilot.com
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Automated vendor name and location extraction from bank memos on a previously uncategorizable dataset by combining a rule-based and CRF (adapted from Stanford NLP) model (75% accuracy).

### Computer Science Tutor @ Minerva Schools at KGI
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Held weekly lessons for classes of ~15 on programming fundamentals in Python.

### Board Member and Alumni Mentor @ 24 Hour Race
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Created, documented, and organised core protocols and references.
- Mentored current student directors.

### KL Executive Director @ 24 Hour Race
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A global youth led movement against human trafficking. 
• Lea a team of 30 youth whilst coordinating with counterparts in Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore.
• Raised over RM250,000 for SUKA Society through fundraising events, merchandise sales, and donations.
• Planned two core events: a 1000 PAX 24-hour race and music festival, and a 100 PAX fundraising dinner gala with notable speakers, an art auction, and performances.
• Interviewed with Thomas Reuters Foundation, Astro Awani, Traxx FM, and other media agencies.

### Digital Support, Project Assistant, and Research & Publications Support @ Center for Asia Leadership Initiatives
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Selangor, Malaysia
A non-profit organisation that addresses Asia’s problems in areas of public entrepreneurship, leadership, and education
• Assisted in the planning and coordination of experiential educational treks, discussion forums, conferences, and other leadership events.
• Maintained the website and prepared standard documents (e.g.: MOUs, booklets, certificates).
• Assisted in the editing of Acumen Case Center Publications.

### Research Assistant @ Monash University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunway, Malaysia
- Assisted lab preparations in the Monash Neurobusiness Behavioural Laboratory under Professor Motoki, Research Professor.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Minerva University

### Full Stack Web Development Certification in Computer Software Engineering
freeCodeCamp

### Foundation degree in Accounting
Sunway College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michlee1337

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Last updated: 2026-03-29