{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Lee Boonstra",
    "label": "AI Software Engineer & Tech Lead, Global Office of the CTO, Google",
    "image": "/images/large_leeboonstra_new.jpg",
    "email": "lee[at]leeboonstra.com",
    "phone": "",
    "url": "https://www.leeboonstra.dev",
    "pronouns": "they/them",
    "summary": "AI Software Engineer, Tech Lead, and Systems Architect with 10 years of experience within Google's Global Office of the CTO (OCTO) - Innovation Factory. Lee specializes in architecting Physical AI simulation pipelines, deterministic GraphRAG on Spanner Property Graphs, large-scale multi-agent coordination frameworks, and frontier enterprise AI platforms. Renowned as an industry benchmark author (O'Reilly, Apress, Kaggle's Prompt Engineering Guide with 400k+ downloads, and the global Spec-Driven Development whitepaper read by 300k+ engineers) and keynote speaker, Lee empowers engineering squads to sculpt complex AI systems using advanced agentic and physical simulation paradigms.\n",
    "location": {
      "city": "Amstelveen",
      "region": "North Holland",
      "countryCode": "NL",
      "country": "Netherlands"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "leeboonstra",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/leeboonstra"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "savelee",
        "url": "https://github.com/savelee"
      },
      {
        "network": "Amazon",
        "username": "Lee-Boonstra",
        "url": "https://www.amazon.com/stores/Lee-Boonstra/author/B098GCTG91"
      }
    ],
    "experienceIntro": "20 years of professional software engineering experience, including 10 years pioneering state-of-the-art AI, physical simulation pipelines, machine learning, and advanced conversational systems at Google."
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Google",
      "position": "AI Software Engineer & Tech Lead (Global Office of the CTO)",
      "url": "https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/octo-google-clouds-two-way-innovation-street/",
      "startDate": "2022-10-01",
      "endDate": null,
      "summary": "Direct technical strategy, software architecture, and high-velocity engineering pods inside the Google Cloud Office of the CTO (OCTO) Innovation Factory, delivering zero-to-one Physical AI simulation systems, deterministic GraphRAG, and applied GenAI platforms.",
      "highlights": [
        "Engineered an automated Real2Sim procedural 3D physics generator to unblock Reinforcement Learning (RL) policy training for autonomous robotics; synthesized 3D meshes, collision primitives, and friction matrices in Blender 5.2+ from 2D vision extraction with Gemini critic loops, exporting scene graphs into MuJoCo MJCF for GPU-accelerated simulation in MJWarp with 95% spatial ingestion accuracy and a 100% collision-free physics pass rate.",
        "Architected a deterministic GraphRAG engine executing compiled Graph Query Language (GQL) on Google Cloud Spanner Property Graphs with a 3-tier database isolation model (Standard, Extension, Proprietary) and SQL-to-GraphSQL translation for global logistics supply chain platforms, achieving zero-hallucination multi-hop reasoning and transitioning architectures to Core Engineering to upgrade the Data Engineering Agent (DEA).",
        "Architected and delivered the nationwide Wendy's drive-thru GenAI speech automation engine as Technical Team Lead; invented and patented the Speech Utterance Finalizer (US20250078820A1) to eliminate human deliberation audio fragmentation, boosting order accuracy by 20%, cutting customer wait times by 15%, driving >1B PR impressions, and winning the Google Cloud Customer Empathy Award.",
        "Authored global developer whitepapers and technical guides reaching over 550,000 developers globally, including 300,000+ developers for Spec-Driven Development in 1H 2026 and 400,000+ downloads for the Kaggle Prompt Engineering Guide.",
        "Regained the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) as a Tier-1 partner by architecting MultiDocAI, a time-aware legal reasoning pipeline that transformed open-ended generation into a constrained JSON-Schema ETL process, achieving 87% initial recall and precision up to 1.0.",
        "Pioneered next-generation multi-agent coordination frameworks and state machine orchestrators utilizing Gemini, Claude, and GPT-4, establishing architectural standards and secure cross-boundary communication protocols using LangGraph and GraphRAG.",
        "Managed a €100k+ annual budget and allocated 25% of leadership effort to product safety as Chapter Lead of the Pride@ Netherlands ERG, directly auditing harmful Dutch dictionary terms for the Google Assistant engineering team."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Google",
      "position": "Senior Developer Advocate & Applied AI Engineer",
      "url": "https://google.com",
      "startDate": "2019-01-01",
      "endDate": "2022-10-01",
      "summary": "Led developer enablement programs and applied engineering proof-of-concept pipelines, establishing cloud AI architecture patterns for Google Cloud's global ecosystem.",
      "highlights": [
        "Orchestrated the open-source architecture of RCE360, a 622k-line omnichannel platform that resolved persistent state management across Twilio, Business Messages, and Assistant, personally contributing 5.5k unique lines of code and shifting the CCAI product roadmap toward CCaaS.",
        "Accelerated enterprise migration to Google Vertex AI by designing, open-sourcing, and presenting technical architectures as a keynote speaker at over 50 large-scale global conferences (including Google I/O and Cloud Next) to audiences of up to 5,000 developers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Google Netherlands",
      "position": "Senior Customer Engineer (Enterprise Platforms)",
      "url": "https://google.com",
      "startDate": "2017-01-01",
      "endDate": "2019-01-01",
      "summary": "Served as the primary technical advisor and systems architect for strategic Google Cloud enterprise financial clients in EMEA.",
      "highlights": [
        "Engineered secure cloud migration roadmaps, distributed computing models, and integration architectures for Tier-1 multinational banking clients including ING and Rabobank."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sencha Inc.",
      "position": "Sales Engineer & Architecture Specialist (EMEA)",
      "url": "https://www.sencha.com",
      "startDate": "2014-01-01",
      "endDate": "2016-01-01",
      "summary": "Designed client-side application platforms and object-oriented front-end architectures for key institutional partners in Europe.",
      "highlights": [
        "Directed architecture consulting and customer-facing engineering alignments for strategic installations including BMW, CERN, and Thales."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Sencha Inc.",
      "position": "Lead Technical Trainer (EMEA)",
      "url": "https://www.sencha.com",
      "startDate": "2012-01-01",
      "endDate": "2014-01-01",
      "summary": "Governed advanced technical training and developer certification architectures, establishing corporate front-end modeling standards.",
      "highlights": [
        "Educated and certified engineering organizations at Fortune 500 platforms including NASDAQ, McAfee, Nielsen, and EMC."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "eFocus (Valtech)",
      "position": "Lead Front-end Developer & SWE Pod Manager",
      "url": "https://www.valtech.com",
      "startDate": "2009-01-01",
      "endDate": "2012-01-01",
      "summary": "Held engineering leadership responsibilities, directing frontend software execution and managing multi-disciplinary development teams.",
      "highlights": [
        "Provided direct technical management and mentorship for a software engineering pod of 5 developers, scaling front-end integrations for market leaders including Heineken and Philips."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Accenture",
      "position": "Senior Java Consultant",
      "url": "https://www.accenture.com",
      "startDate": "2007-01-01",
      "endDate": "2009-01-01",
      "summary": "Consulted on back-end enterprise microservices, transactional databases, and distributed Java architectures for multinational enterprise operations.",
      "highlights": [
        "Engineered transactional backend systems, scaling high-performance database routing for major airline and telecommunication clients including KLM/Air France and KPN."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Spec-Driven Development Whitepaper",
      "publisher": "Google Cloud / Global Developer Publications",
      "releaseDate": "2026-06-01",
      "url": "/images/leeboonstra-specdriven-development.pdf",
      "summary": "Author of the foundational Spec-Driven Development whitepaper, establishing formal specification-driven agentic software engineering workflows, test-driven gates, and deterministic LLM guardrails for over 300,000 developers worldwide in 1H 2026.",
      "type": "whitepaper"
    },
    {
      "name": "Prompt Engineering Whitepaper (Google/Kaggle)",
      "publisher": "Google / Kaggle",
      "releaseDate": "2025-01-15",
      "url": "https://www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-prompt-engineering",
      "summary": "Author of the widely read prompt engineering reference guide that has reached over 100,000 developers, prompt engineers, and AI researchers worldwide, achieving global success with over 400,000 unique downloads and 550,000+ total views.",
      "type": "whitepaper"
    },
    {
      "name": "The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI with Dialogflow and Google Cloud",
      "publisher": "Apress",
      "releaseDate": "2021-06-01",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7014-1",
      "summary": "Industry reference book covering architecture, conversational mechanics, integration patterns, and NLU modeling. 420 pages, achieving 21,000+ online accesses and 25 academic citations. ISBN: 978-1-4842-7014-1 & 978-1-4842-7013-4.",
      "type": "book"
    },
    {
      "name": "Hands-on Sencha Touch 2: A Real-World App Approach",
      "publisher": "O'Reilly",
      "releaseDate": "2013-11-01",
      "url": "https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-sencha-touch/9781449339395/",
      "summary": "Practical handbook for high-performance mobile web applications, hybrid layout mechanics, and MVC orchestration in early corporate web interfaces.",
      "type": "book"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patent (US20250078820A1): Scalable High-Accuracy Transactional Agents",
      "publisher": "Google Intellectual Property / USPTO",
      "releaseDate": "2025-03-13",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250078820A1/en?inventor=Lee+Boonstra",
      "summary": "Patent covering high-performance transactional Conversational AI pipelines at Google, enhancing conversational state accuracy and transactional integrity in multi-turn GenAI speech interfaces.",
      "type": "patent"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patent (GP-310555-00-US): Communicating Across a Trust Boundary using a Digital Sibling",
      "publisher": "Google Intellectual Property",
      "releaseDate": "2026-11-15",
      "url": "",
      "summary": "Google Patent covering secure messaging protocols, cross-domain authentication schemas, and isolated execution boundaries for multi-agent system handoffs.",
      "type": "patent"
    },
    {
      "name": "Invention Disclosure (IDF-326887): AI Agents working across Trust boundaries: The Digital Sibling",
      "publisher": "Google Intellectual Property",
      "releaseDate": "2026-05-20",
      "url": "",
      "summary": "Invention Disclosure (IDF) detailing runtime agent coordination architectures and secure decentralized state replication across enterprise trust domains.",
      "type": "patent"
    },
    {
      "name": "Defensive Publication: Layered Data-Matching Method for Industry Standards Knowledge Graphs",
      "publisher": "Google Intellectual Property",
      "releaseDate": "2026-04-10",
      "url": "",
      "summary": "Defensive publication outlining deterministic graph schema alignment and SQL-to-GraphSQL translation algorithms for enterprise logistics supply chains.",
      "type": "patent"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Saxion University of Applied Sciences",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
      "area": "Information and Communication Technology",
      "startDate": "2004-09-01",
      "endDate": "2008-06-30"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Physical AI, Robotics & Simulation",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Reinforcement Learning (RL)",
        "MuJoCo (MJCF)",
        "MJWarp Simulator",
        "Blender (Computational Geometry & Python API)",
        "Agibot",
        "Real2Sim Procedural Pipelines",
        "Physics Simulation & Collision Meshes",
        "Spatial Blueprint Extraction (Gemini Critic Loops)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI & Machine Learning",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Frontier LLMs (Gemini, Claude, GPT)",
        "Open Source LLMs (Gemma, Llama, Gwen, Mistral, Phi)",
        "JAX",
        "Model Tuning & Alignment (DPO, RLHF)",
        "Prompt Engineering & DSPy",
        "PyTorch",
        "TensorFlow",
        "Technical Leadership",
        "Team Mentorship",
        "TTS & STT (Whisper, Decibel)",
        "Large Language Models (LLMs)",
        "Generative AI",
        "Natural Language Processing (NLP)",
        "Vector Embeddings",
        "Dialogflow CX",
        "Distributed Computing & vLLM"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "GenAI Architectures & Orchestration",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Spec-Driven Development",
        "GraphRAG (Spanner GQL Property Graphs)",
        "LangGraph Architectures",
        "LangChain",
        "Vector RAG",
        "Antigravity Framework",
        "Vibe Coding",
        "Trust Boundaries & Zero-Knowledge Sandboxes",
        "Multi-Agent System Design"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Programming Languages",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Pandas",
        "NumPy",
        "Node.js",
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "Java Enterprise",
        "SQL & GQL",
        "HTML5",
        "SASS",
        "CSS3",
        "React",
        "Angular",
        "Ext JS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Data & Cloud Infrastructure",
      "level": "Master",
      "keywords": [
        "Google Cloud Platform (GCP)",
        "Google Cloud Spanner (Graph / GQL)",
        "Firestore & BigQuery",
        "Vector Search (pgvector, ChromaDB)",
        "Neo4j",
        "Kubernetes & Docker",
        "Borg & Borgmon",
        "Firebase",
        "API Governance (gRPC & REST)",
        "CI/CD Orchestrations",
        "Git",
        "Bespoke Developer Tooling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "Dutch",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native"
    },
    {
      "language": "German",
      "fluency": "Conversational"
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "Stichting Meer Dan Gewenst",
      "position": "Philanthropy",
      "summary": "Donated 100% of personal book royalties from the Apress/Springer textbook to the LGBTQ+ charity Stichting Meer Dan Gewenst."
    }
  ]
}