Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Founded Organizations 2
  • Primary Job Title Founder and CEO
  • Primary Organization 
    Smith.ai

Aaron was the co-founder of Redbeacon and former CTO of The Home Depot. He worked on product design and engineering at Redbeacon. Prior to that, Aaron was one of the founding engineers on Google Video. He later became the Tech Lead on YouTube monetization, building products that spanned AdSense, AdWords and YouTube. He was also a Launch Engineer,

helping launch many other Google products and mentoring and promoting engineers. Aaron received his Ph.D. in Computer Graphics from Princeton and has interned at NVIDIA, Microsoft Research (where he received a Microsoft Fellowship), NASA Ames Research Center and Lucent Technologies. He has published papers in SIGGRAPH, IEEE conferences, sciencedaily.com and gamasutra.com. Aaron earned an M.A and B.A. from University of Cambridge with first honors in Computer Science. Aaron holds six patents with others currently pending.

Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 10
Aaron Lee has 2 current jobs as Founder and CEO at Smith.ai and Founder, CEO at Smith.ai. Additionally, Aaron Lee has had 10 past jobs including Co-founder and CTO at Redbeacon (Pro Referral).
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Redbeacon (Pro Referral)
Co-founder and CTOOct 2008Apr 2016
The Home Depot
CTOJun 2013Apr 2015
NASA Ames Research Center
Summer Intern
NVIDIA
Graphics consultant
KNET Broadband
Summer intern
iVast
Senior system engineer
Microsoft
Summer Intern
Lucent
Summer Intern
Google
Tech Lead
Bosch
Tech Lead
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 1
Aaron Lee is the Friend of Fitz at Fitz Gate Ventures.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Cooliris
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