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Jonathan Lee - Director of Engineering & AI in Austin, TX

Jonathan Lee

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in agentic AI systems

DK LawUniversity of Texas at AustinAustin, TX19 Years ExperienceDirector LevelWorks Remote

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Engineering leader and hands-on architect who built a team from scratch and owned everything from architecture and security to DevOps and deployment. Has led sophisticated AI/agentic systems in legal-tech and operations, including demand-letter automation, news/content generation, and human-in-the-loop fax routing, while also guiding major infrastructure and enterprise telephony transitions.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and led an engineering team from scratch (8-person team plus project manager)
  • Owned end-to-end engineering accountability across architecture, security, DevOps, and deployment
  • Strong change leadership during shifting executive priorities
  • Designed and drove migration to event-driven real-time architecture
  • Upskilled engineers on modern architecture through hands-on technical leadership
  • Built AI agent systems for complex document-heavy legal workflows
  • Implemented structured LLM quality controls with LangGraph, retries, evaluation nodes, and human review
  • Applied LangSmith tracing and adversarial agents to improve output quality, security, and code quality
  • Turned complex AI workflows into intuitive human-in-the-loop products for non-technical users
  • Managed high-stakes enterprise phone system transition for a 500-person company using milestone-based delivery

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Experience

Director of Engineering & AIDK Law · Jan 2025 – Mar 2026
Founder & Principal EngineerAlgorithmic Innovations · Nov 2011 – Dec 2024
Founder & Chief Executive Officer787 Developers · Apr 2012 – Jan 2018
Chief Executive OfficerSharp Realty · Dec 2006 – Mar 2012

Education

University of Texas at Austinbachelor, Computer Science, Business, Statistics, & Sociology (2006)

Languages

English

Certifications

Machine Learning CertificationGenerative AI NanodegreeDeep Learning NanodegreeAI for Trading Nanodegree

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Jonathan LeeDirector-level Engineering Leader specializing in agentic AI systems