Experience

Exploring April 2025–Present

• Exploring the future of version control and collaboration for ai-native teams at Renorm Labs.

Engineering Manager Wayve, Mountain View, CA Mar 2023–April 2025

• Engineering Manager for data search and understanding team.
• Led Wayve's foundation model development team, developing novel approaches to SSL pre-training for video models.

Member @ South Park Commons, San Francisco, CA Jan 2022–Mar 2023

Software Engineer Google, Mountain View, CA Mar 2018–Jan 2022

• End-to-end reinforcement learning for manipulation, ML infrastructure, and data tools at Google X/Everyday Robots.
• Site Reliability Engineering tech lead for Google-internal log collection and data warehouse services.

Software Engineer Airbnb, San Francisco, CA Feb 2015–Oct 2017

• Tech lead responsible for for architecting/deploying sharded cloud infrastructure in China.
• Led site-wide incident response team. Developed incident response curriculum and best practices used across the company.
• Responsible for launch reliability and readiness across Airbnb, notably Airbnb Trips and the 2016 #weaccept campaign.

Data Scientist Google, Mountain View, CA Jun 2013–Feb 2015

• Developed infrastructure, tools, and models to help detect and mitigate invalid activity on Google's ad networks, YouTube, and Google+.

Information Security PA The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, OH Feb 2011–May 2013

• Developed in-house vulnerability tracking system for achieving PCI compliance.

Investments & Advisor Roles

• Early angel investor in high growth companies including Figma, KUDO. LP in AirAngels and South Park Commons funds.
• Hold advisor positions at multiple startups in AI, infrastructure, and observability companies.

Education

B.S. Mathematics, summa cum laude Cleveland State University Graduated May 2013
Thesis: Classifying Configurations for Toric Codes

Conferences & Talks

• Tuckerman-Lee, C.J. E2E Safety and Explainability: The Road to Embodied AI. CVPR Workshop on Safe Artificial Intelligence for All Domains. Seattle, WA. 2024 June 18.
• Tuckerman-Lee, C.J. Reliability for Planet-Scale Infrastructure. DevOps国际峰会. Beijing, China. 2018 June 29.
• Tuckerman-Lee, C.J. SRE at Airbnb. DevOpsDays Shanghai. Shanghai, China. 2017 Aug 18.
• Tuckerman-Lee, C.J. Own Your Own Impact. FutureStack. San Francisco, CA. 2016 Nov 16.
• Tuckerman, C.J., Zürcher, U. Extending Newton's Apsidal Theorem. APS Ohio-Region. Detroit, MI. 2012 Oct 6.

Skills & Interests

• Python, Ruby, Rust, C++, Java, Mandarin (beginner)
• Amateur Radio Operator (W6CJT)