Resume

Chris SuYoung Lee

New York · remote

Profile

Forward-deployed data engineering at Goldman Sachs, a live futures engine, and systems for defense clients. College professor and IT at HAIT. local-host.ai is the local agent. Connecting Captions is live subtitles on a Mac.

Experience

2026 — present

Chiang Rai, remote

College Professor

HAIT

IT systems and AI curriculum

Runs hosting and security for the school.
Rebuilt the public site and the PHP under it.
Wrote the first AI curriculum and taught the first cohort.
Set up OpenClaw and OpenAgent workflows, and a data-recollection project with someone at Korea University.

Sep 2025 — Aug 2026

New York

Founding CTO

Stealth fintech

Kraken futures engine

Built a trading engine on Kraken crypto futures. Python and Kafka, under 100ms from feed to book.
Agents that check portfolios against the SQL ledger.
Owned the models: PyTorch time-series, retraining around the clock, news processors for sudden moves, and a daily pre-market brief that cut the morning analysis by 90%.

May 2022 — Jul 2025

New York

Full Stack Engineer

Goldman Sachs

Forward deployment and automation

Forward-deployment engineer — developers, traders, and lawyers on one reporting path, so the numbers stayed auditable and legally compliant.
Designed and shipped a beneficiary management system serving 10,000+ client accounts and cut data processing time by 80%.
Scaled Java and Kafka pipelines and REST APIs used by 50+ internal teams, cutting data-access latency by 15%.
Built a Selenium and TestNG suite that raised test accuracy 22% across hundreds of financial and compliance scenarios.
Stayed on trading, compliance, and market-data APIs after they shipped.

Oct 2020 — May 2022

La Brea, CA

Full Stack Software Engineer

One Dave Software

Curtis, defense, and email systems

Built inventory pipelines and frontends for Curtis, a government nuclear pipeline contractor.
Led a system-wide upgrade that cut email-server response time by 70%.
Built and maintained secure National Defense web applications.

Open source

local-host.ai — a local agent. It thinks on the Mac, keeps memory on disk, and runs skills you can open. local-host.ai · github.com/chrisswimlee/local-host.ai

Connecting Captions — live subtitles on a Mac (GPLv3). Translation stays on the machine. Each sentence appears when it is ready. Get it · github.com/chrisswimlee/connectingCaptions

DeskBreak — macOS menu-bar timer (MIT). After 40 minutes a little character tells you to stand. It runs on the Mac by itself. The work · github.com/chrisswimlee/deskbreak

Local Lattice — local gateway that speaks the OpenAI API (Apache-2.0). You ask for a role like coder or reasoner, and it picks a model. The work · github.com/chrisswimlee/local-lattice

Public work

HAIT — public site and systems for Hebron Asia International Institute of Technology, an AI institute in Chiang Rai. Rebuilt the front-end and the PHP under it. haitedu.com

D22-soso — site for Wayne “D22-soso” Chiang, 1999 Brood War World Champion, WSOP talent manager, and inventor of 2 Hand Hold’em. d22soso.com

Education

Graduated May 2026

M.S. Information Studies

Trine University

May 2020

B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics

Trinity College, Hartford

1823 Scholar — full-ride scholarship

Skills

Languages

JavaPythonSwiftSQLJavaScriptC++C#

AI & ML

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnLangChainNumPyQuantitative modeling

Data

SQLApache Kafka

Delivery

DockerGitLab CI/CDGit

Platforms

Spring BootASP.NET

Agent tooling

ClaudeCursorn8nOpenClaw

Testing

SeleniumTestNGJUnit

Technical achievements

HAIT, 2026 — present. Taught the first AI course while running the school’s IT. Wrote the curriculum, checked the lab machines, and taught the cohort. OpenClaw and OpenAgent for students and staff. Hosting and security included.
Stealth fintech, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. A live Kraken futures engine, from an empty pipeline to orders going out. Founding CTO. Python and Kafka, under 100ms from feed to book. Models that retrain all day, and a morning brief that took about 90% of the analysis off the desk.
Goldman Sachs, May 2022 – Jul 2025. One reporting path that developers, traders, and lawyers would sign. Forward-deployed on the beneficiary system behind 10,000+ accounts. That path ran 80% faster than the one it replaced. More than 50 teams on the APIs.
One Dave, Oct 2020 – May 2022. Systems for a government nuclear contractor and national defense clients. Inventory pipelines for Curtis, inside the systems they already had. Defense web apps with security review from the first ticket.

Competitive achievements

Professional Hearthstone, Americas. #1 on the Americas Wild ladder three times — October 2016, January 2019, and November 2025. #1 seed for the 2019 Wild Open. Two-time Americas Continental Qualifier in 2016 and 2017.

2016 · HCT Spring Preliminary · Oct 2016 · #1 Americas Hearthstone · 2017 · HCT Summer Preliminary · Jan 2019 · Wild Open Qualifier Rank #1 · Nov 2025 · Rank 1 Hearthstone Americas