Timothy Wee

CTO

2021

https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/09/pod-foods-grocery-supply-chain/amp/

Investor and advisor

2017

Investor

2017

LP@Schema, Vertex, Red Swan, Essence VC, Firsthand, etc Invested in Expo, LemFi, Sanzo, Alto Pharmacy, etc

engineering and ML

2019 - 2021

ML and engineering for Geo and Assistant

Principal Engineer

2016 - 2019

Built the NLU models for voice commerce for Walmart. The models outperformed soundhound, voicebox, and api.ai in benchmarks, convincing Walmart to invest in building an internal team for this capability. https://news.walmart.com/2019/04/02/want-walmart-to-help-you-grocery-shop-with-our-new-voice-capabilities-just-say-the-word

ML and Engineering

2013 - 2016

Runa became Staples Sparx when Staples acquired the company in 2014 Awards: 2014 and 2015 Inventor of the Year award (company-wide) Responsibilities: Built a recommendation system that beat leading rec system providers. Also worked on purchase prediction and personalized marketing.

ml and data

2011 - 2013

https://digiday.com/marketing/amazon-now-1-billion-ad-business/ One of the early engineers on the Amazon Ads Data team. Worked on data models, pipelines, and infrastructure for advertising analytics, models, and conversion attribution. - data processing for analytics and scaling out predictive models for advertising - data analysis and ML via python.

Research Engineer

2010 - 2011

worked on spam detection and url/content quality estimation.

Developer

2007 - 2010

data engineering

2009 - 2009

Helped get FlightCaster off the ground while at Thoughtworks. Flightcaster was a YCombinator summer 2009 funded company, acquired by Next Jump in 01/2011 Worked on initial data analysis infrastructure and alogrithms, as well as setting up Hadoop and initial infrastructure for data analysis on EC2, and making a Clojure wrapper for Cascading.