Alexander Li
Senior Software Engineer at Plaid
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building production systems at top-tier tech firms. He progressed from internships at Qualcomm, Google, and Bloomberg to a multi-year software engineering role at Google before joining Plaid in a senior capacity. His background in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, combined with early data science research experience, gives him a strong foundation in both systems and data-driven engineering. Known for shipping reliable, scalable services, he blends hands-on coding with cross-team collaboration in fast-moving product environments. A pragmatic problem-solver, he leverages internship-to-senior career continuity to move quickly from prototypes to production-grade solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
visualization10
graph-drawing10
graph10
cytoscapejs10
theory10
network10
graph-theory10
cytoscape9
context-menu9
dagre9
layout8
menu8
qtip8
network-visualization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexcli/cytoscape.js
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
amdmeteorvisualisationcdnjsgraph-theory
alexcli/hello-world
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 13 pushes, 16 branches in 1 day
pythoncpp
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