janet lee

hi! I'm Janet.

I'm a software engineer in New York. At Meta I work on Muse voice & embodiment, and after hours, I make things for my church and for fun.

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Janet smiling by the lake in Central Park, the Midtown skyline behind her

Bay Area born & raised,
now in NYC

What I work on

(the short version. the long one is on my resume)

Jolly, a fluffy cream-colored character, chatting on a blue phone with a curly cord

Muse voice & embodiment

Meta Superintelligence Labs · 2024 – now

I lead the Android engineering team for Muse voice and embodiment, so you can talk with Meta's AI out loud, in real time, by voice or face to face with its avatar. Mark Zuckerberg first demoed it live at Connect in September 2026, and it launched in November. Before that, our team built voice and avatar calling for Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, and we owned third-party character creation on AI Studio.

Photos from the Connect demo ↗TechCrunch on Muse at Connect ↗

first demo at Connect → launch

Reels on Facebook

Facebook Video · 2021 – 2024

Made Reels autoplay in Feed feel smooth (lots of crash, memory and scroll fixes), which grew watch time 3.8%, then brought Reels to the Watch tab with a small team.

so much Kotlin

Facebook on wearables

Reality Labs · 2020 – 2021

My first team at Meta: Stories sharing on top secret hardware alongside five partner teams. I wrote our first end-to-end and UI tests and helped wherever we were short.

first time building for hardware!

Side projects

Just a few things I've made outside work: three for my church, Alabaster Group in New York and Boston, and a few that grew out of the dance teams I was on in college.

newest thing!

Cutline

Personal project · 2026

A basketball playbook you can watch come to life. Draw a play beat by beat and see it run on a 3D court, or sit back while the playbook runs one play after another, in man or zone, on courts from a New York park to a big arena. Quiz mode freezes the play and asks what you'd do.

Try it ↗

Off the clock

I grew up in the Bay Area, went east for computer science at Princeton University in New Jersey (plus certificates in Finance and Spanish), and now New York is home.

At my church, Alabaster Group, I'm on the production and tech teams (hence all the church projects above), and I also help lead Bible studies at Christians@MetaNY. Lately I've been thinking a lot about what effective mentorship and discipleship look like.

Fun facts: I've been a Survivor superfan since 2008 (Micronesia is the best season, no debate), and my big goal for 2026 is one pull-up. Just one. Wish me luck.

  • basketball
  • boogie
    boarding
  • fashion
  • Survivor
    (Micronesia forever)
  • travel
    (mainly to Hawaii)

live at Connect

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