2025 — present
Chiang Rai, remote
Professor
HAIT
AI university
- Teach at an AI university still standing up.
- Own the IT — hosting, security, and the stack the school runs on.
- Rebuilt the public site and the PHP under it so recruiting works.
Resume
Chris Su-Young Lee
Profile
Six years of engineering across math, Goldman infrastructure, and a #1 competitive rank. I use that mix to pick a direction and ship.
- Pure theory. Formal mathematics — I prove it before I write it.
- Implementation. Enterprise and AI engineering — Infrastructure on a deadline, with the pager on.
- Strategic execution. Competitive meta and pedagogy — A clock, a hidden hand, then getting a room to move.
Experience
Sep 2025 — Aug 2026
New York
Lead Founding AI Engineer
Stealth fintech
Agentic stock trading engine, zero to one
- Built the Python and Kafka market-data pipeline the agents traded on, across multiple exchanges.
- Built the agent loop that audits portfolios against legacy SQL with modern LLMs.
- Owned MLOps: PyTorch time-series models, live signals, backtesting, and daily pre-market briefings.
May 2022 — Jul 2025
New York
Full Stack Engineer
Goldman Sachs
Forward deployment and automation
- 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, and stayed on the line for trading, compliance, and market-data APIs after they shipped.
Oct 2020 — May 2022
Full Stack Software Engineer
One Dave Software
- Built and maintained full-stack web applications for clients in national defense and nuclear energy.
- Led a system-wide upgrade that improved email server response time by 70%.
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
AI & ML
Platforms
Tools
Consulting
Technical lead for funded teams with a stuck system — data, automation, or agents. A diagnostic to start. A scoped build or a retainer once the work is clear.
- Diagnostic. $1,000 · 90 minutes. We look at what is stuck and I tell you what to do first. You leave with that in writing.
- Build. From $20,000 · Scoped project. An internal tool, an agent, or the pipeline under them. A public site alone is not the job.
- Retainer. $12,000 · per month. I stay on it. Priorities, reviews, and shipping every month.
- Day rate. $3,000 / day. A workshop, a review, or a day in the room to ship something.
Write suyoung.lee99@gmail.com with what the company does and what’s stuck.
Open source
Local Lattice — local-first OpenAI-compatible capability gateway (Apache-2.0). Agents ask for a role, not a model string. Capability routing, admission queue, hybrid local + cloud swarm. github.com/chrisswimlee/local-lattice
Digital work
HAIT — public site for Hebron Asia International Institute of Technology, the AI university where I teach. Redesigned the front-end, upgraded the PHP, and fixed performance so recruiting works before there is a campus. 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
Competitive achievements
Professional Hearthstone, Americas. #1 on the Americas Wild ladder twice — January 2019 and again November 2025. #1 seed for the 2019 Wild Open. 2016 HCT Americas Spring Preliminary. Official HCT tavern champion, Rancho Cucamonga, July 2017. Seven years apart at the top of the same ladder, against two completely different metagames.