I’m Jess Lee. I’m 26. I live in Silicon Valley, but I grew up in Hong Kong. I moved to the US in 2000 to attend Stanford University, where I studied Computer Science. I’m half-Chinese and half-Japanese.
After college, I worked at Google for 4 years, where I spent most of my time as a product manager for Google Maps. Some of the features I launched included:
- My Maps (it was amazing to see this feature being used in the Southern California wildfires and the big snowstorms in China)
- Multipoint driving directions
- Draggable driving directions
- Embeddable maps
- Real time traffic
- Photos of businesses
- Geocoding in the Maps API
I left Google in March 2008 to join a tiny startup called Polyvore, because I fell in love with the product and grew hopelessly addicted to it. Luckily the startup life is everything I hoped it would be and more!
My hobbies/interests include reading manga, drawing people (check out my artwork ), tracking down strange internet memes (like the war on Scientology), and eating delicious foods (especially bacon).
You can find me on FriendFeed, where I’m pretty active.
