Kenneth Lee
InvestorInvestor at VU Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Writes $1M – $10M checks · typically $5M
About
Kenneth Lee is a distributed systems architect and engineering leader with over 10 years of experience scaling data platforms and infrastructure. He has held leadership roles at Lyft, Chartboost, Trulia, Klout, and Carnivore, where he worked on high-throughput event pipelines, real-time analytics systems, and LLM-based applications. He is currently Founder and Principal Engineer at Big Fast Data, where he focuses on distributed systems architecture and AI-driven analytics platforms.
Experience
- Big Fast DataFounder & Principal Engineercurrent2019 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- VU Venture PartnersVenture Investorcurrent2020 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Trading.TVHead Of Engineering2021 — 2022San Francisco, California, United States
- LyftEngineering Manager, Business Operations2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
- Carnivore IncCo-Founder & CTO2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- Linekong US, a subsidary of Linekong Entertainment TechnologyHead of Game Science2015 — 2017Burlingame, CA
- ChartboostDirector of Growth and Analytics2012 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- KloutEngineering Manager/Lead Engineer (Analytics)2011 — 2012San Francisco Bay Area
- GetJar Inc.Principal Architect2010 — 2011San Mateo
- TruliaSenior Software Engineer2009 — 2010
- Quantcast CorporationSenior Developer2008 — 2009
- C Statione-business Consultant and Co-Founder1995 — 2008San Francisco Bay Area and Hong Kong
- North Point, Inc.Object Consultant1992 — 1995
- Hewlett PackardMember of Technical Staff1988 — 1992Cupertino CA
Skills & more
HBase17Hadoop40MapReduce19Java31Django1Scala1MySQL14Python5Spring1AJAX4Git1JavaScript1
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ML & LLM SystemsLeading Development TeamsData ScienceTechnical Project LeadershipComputer ScienceScalabilityAlgorithmsHiveAnalyticsDistributed SystemsMobile ApplicationsSoftware EngineeringLanguages Chinese · English
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Colleagues at VU Venture Partners
Aakash Jain
Partner - North America, Europe, & LatAm at VU Venture Partners
Alek Kloda
CIO & Founding Partner at Nickel Digital Asset Management
Andrew Zalasin
General Partner - North America, Europe, & LatAm at VU Venture Partners
Andy Goldstein
Partner - Western Europe at VU Venture Partners
Angie Wang
Principal - Asia-Pacific Investment Team at VU Venture Partners
Bernardt Vogel
Senior Associate at VU Venture Partners
Bevon King
Investor at VU Venture Partners
Bo Yang
Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Kenneth Lee?
- Kenneth Lee is a distributed systems architect and engineering leader with over 10 years of experience scaling data platforms and infrastructure. He has held leadership roles at Lyft, Chartboost, Trulia, Klout, and Carnivore, where he worked on high-throughput event pipelines, real-time analytics systems, and LLM-based applications. He is currently Founder and Principal Engineer at Big Fast Data, where he focuses on distributed systems architecture and AI-driven analytics platforms.
- Where does Kenneth Lee work?
- Kenneth Lee is Investor at VU Venture Partners.
- What check size does Kenneth Lee write?
- Kenneth Lee typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.
- Where did Kenneth Lee go to school?
- Kenneth Lee studied at San Francisco State University (BS, Computer Science).
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Shared employers
Also worked at Lyft101
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