Lee Boonstra

AI Software Engineer & Advocate for the Office of the CTO, Google. Lee Boonstra (they/them) is a Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Google’s Global Office of the CTO, Innovation Factory. They specialize in building large-scale machine learning systems that disrupt markets and foster global collaboration. With over a decade of experience, Lee has worn many hats, from technical trainer and developer advocate to web developer and prompt / AI engineer. Lee is a self-starter who excels at driving innovation projects that leverage their deep expertise in Conversational AI, Generative AI and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Their technical skills are extensive, spanning Google Cloud, LLMs, GenAI, finetuning, as well as Speech Technology and Vector Embeddings. A recent project Lee led involved designing an end-to-end GenAI speech solution for Wendy’s, showcasing their ability to implement and deploy models to production. Lee’s work is also featured in an Invention Disclosure for “Scalable High-Accuracy Transactional Agents.” Beyond their work as an engineer, Lee is a respected public keynote speaker, having presented at over 50 large conferences, including Google I/O and Google Cloud Next, to audiences of up to 5,000 people. They are also a published author for O’Reilly and Apress, having written the book The Definitive Guide to Conversational AI with Dialogflow & Google Cloud and recently, Lee authored the viral Prompt Engineering Whitepaper for Google/Kaggle, which has been read by developers, prompt engineers, and AI researchers all over the world. Lee’s journey is a testament to their passion for creating technology rather than just consuming it.