Erica Luna Lee
About Erica Luna Lee
Erica Luna Lee is a technical inventor, leader & humanitarian. She has worked at 3 public tech companies & founded 2 startups. Recently as VP at Upwork, Director at Zillow, and as Manager at Apple (via acquihire). Erica is the Founder of WomenOfAI.org and is an AI influencer having spoken at Grace Hopper, Stanford, Google, TechCrunch, IBM & NASDAQ. Prior, she worked at Morgan Stanley & Harvard Research. Erica is based in Los Angeles, CA. # skills GENERATIVE AI — Large Language Models (LLMs) — Conversational AI (chatGPT) ML LANGUAGE — Translation (voice-to-text) — NLP/NLU (text-to-meaning) — Transformers, LSTM ML SEARCH & DISCOVER — Search (Query Understanding, AutoComplete, Filtering, Ranking, Similar Searches) — Recommendations (knn, clustering, personalization) ML VISION — Computer Vision — Image Recognition — Scene Understanding ML FORECASTING — Propensity Models, CLTV & Churn Rate (logistic regression, d-tree, random forest, deep learning) INFRASTRUCTURE - DATA — Data Pipelines & Streaming (Spark ETL, Kafka/Flink/Kinesis, GraphQL) — Storage & Compute (S3, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL) — Warehousing (Snowflake, Databricks) — Containerization (Docker) — Data Structures (Redis, Solar, ElasticSearch) — Entity Data (app data), Event Data (clickstream) INFRASTRUCTURE - ML — Model CI/CD + Orchestration (SageMaker + EMR + EC2, KubeFlow, Airflow) — Model Catalog & Experimentation (Hugging Face, ML Flow) — Data Governance (PII, security, data privacy, federated learning) INFRASTRUCTURE - SWE — Languages (R, SQL, Python, Java, JavaScript, React) — Cloud (AWS, GCP), On-Prem, On-Device — OS (Web, iOS) — Security (Fraud, Auth (SAML, OAuth, Apigee) — DevOps (Cost Optimization, QA) PRODUCT LEADERSHIP — Vision, Culture, Product Strategy, System Design — Goal Setting (OKR, KPI), Resourcing (P&L, Vendors) — Consumer Apps, Marketplaces PEOPLE LEADERSHIP — Stakeholder Alignment, Conflict Resolution, High-Risk Negotiations — Mentoring Leaders & Individuals, Reorganizations, Remote Work — Recruiting, M&A, Public Speaking, Blogs, Diversity & Inclusion, Belonging