Meet your next
creative developer.

Proud generalist with years of experience bringing products to life.

a series of blue cubes nested within each other

I build immersive
experiences

my partner in a nature reserve
a side profile silhouette of an artist holding a microphone in a concert
me bouldering a cliff feature
my beagle and dachshund staring at the camera
my partner and I in the mirror of a diner
my partner walking along a rock feature alongside the ocean

while living
a full life.

a screenshot of a listings page in a mock asset trading app I built called Kopi Time a screenshot of a showcase website a screenshot of the homepage for a food search engine I built called Wok N Roll a screenshot of a scheduling application I built called meetwhen a screenshot of the inventory page in a mock asset trading app I built called Kopi Time a screenshot of the homepage for a scheduling application I built called meetwhen

I work on
the web
& mobile

and I'd like to work with you.

bryanmylee@gmail.com
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Work Experience

Proud generalist with years of experience bringing products to life.

ByteDance

Apr 2025 — present

Research & Development

  • Worked with project managers, data analysts, and many other teams to expand TikTok’s market share in the local services search business, focusing on content coverage and quality for hotels, food & beverage, and travel.
  • Developed multi-modal LLM content understanding features that improved CTR by +3.9% across millions of daily searches.
  • Optimized the performance of Golang services, improving p90 response latency by 15ms for billions of monthly active users.
  • Designed and built data pipelines for large-scale online data collection to feed ranking algorithms.

Charter Space

Feb 2023 — Apr 2025

Software Engineer

  • Technical lead on a team of four engineers, regularly providing guidance on product and technical decisions to deliver scalable, maintainable, and high-performance systems.
  • Worked with our design team to build a flexible, accessible, and extensively documented component design system in React that significantly improved the polish and UX of our application, increasing our user-trial conversions by 400%.
  • Reduced our regressions and defect leakages by fostering a culture of observability and testing, adding OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and designing E2E tests that reduced our defect leakage rate to sub-15%.
  • Key contributor as both a programmer and technical lead for many core systems on our flagship product: a diagram-based navigation tool, a reactive in-database spreadsheet, an attribute-based access control system, and much more.

Meta

May 2022 — Aug 2022

Enterprise Engineer

  • Designed a universal database for logging critical user actions across all Meta Enterprise applications that now provides traceability on the user behaviour of millions of active users for audit and debugging.
  • Built a data pagination and fetching solution for high responsiveness in browser-based application clients, overcoming existing database limitations to meet functional requirements on a tight deadline.
  • Upgraded our administrative tools to enable the management and exploration of critical action logs efficiently.
  • Discovered and fixed critical issues in internal tools used by tens of thousands of Meta engineers, working with developer teams from all across the world to review and push code to production.

Airfoil Studio

Nov 2021 — Apr 2022

Software Engineer

  • Technical consultant and contributor to a diverse range of clients with millions of monthly active users such as Playhouse Real Estate, Pylon Lending, and Lumen Energy.
  • Provided expertise in rendering optimizations that minimized the navigation latency of mobile applications and improved the responsiveness of client-facing web dashboards.
  • Developed data dashboards and accessible webpages.

DSO National Laboratories

May 2021 — Jul 2021

Cybersecurity Researcher

  • Researched a wide variety of JavaScript fuzzing technologies, from American Fuzzy Lop to DIE.
  • Explored the effectiveness and efficiency of ensemble fuzzing for vulnerability detection in browsers and JavaScript engines.
  • Developed an Ansible automation pipeline to configure and test multiple fuzzer configurations.

Garuda Robotics

May 2020 — Aug 2020

Software Engineer

  • Developed a Python warning system for beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone flight system.
  • Restructured a large React application on Redux for project maintainability.
  • Migrated legacy React components from the Google Maps API to Leaflet and OpenStreetMaps.
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