Ted Li
Member Of Technical Staff at Portola
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Li is a Member of Technical Staff based in San Jose with a decade of experience building AI-native products and scalable consumer systems. He recently led post-training and agentic LLM work at Character.AI and Gen—building data flywheels, post-training pipelines and end-to-end integrations that served millions—and now focuses on creating the next billion AI companions at Portola. Prior to AI, he delivered full-stack solutions for monetization, payments, marketplaces and gaming at Roblox, Apple and Google, where he improved web client performance and modernized critical revenue tooling. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia and dual B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics, a combination that informs his structural, systems-first approach to engineering. Comfortable at the intersection of ML research and product engineering, he bridges models, backend infrastructure and UX to bring complex AI experiences to market.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at City University of New York-Queens CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German
Github Skills (61)
visualization10
shutdown10
live-server10
livereload10
browser-extension9
javascript9
openpgp9
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
packaging9
resolver9
castle9
react9
safari-extension9
live-reload9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MonkeyLeeT/PPGBuyBuyBuy
May 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 26 PRs, 45 pushes in 2 months
MonkeyLeeT/nga_static_res
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 29 pushes in 2 days
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