Summary
Alice Li is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and a dual academic background in Computer Science (University of Waterloo) and Business Administration (Wilfrid Laurier), currently building ML model serving infrastructure at Databricks. Her internships at MongoDB and LinkedIn produced measurable wins— including a 100x performance improvement for $sum aggregations on time-series collections and deploying eBPF-based kernel profiling for distributed training observability. Comfortable across full-stack, infra, and tooling domains, she programs in C++, Java, JavaScript, Python and more, and has shipped backend storage and query optimizations as well as frontend and API work at scale. A former newcomer to North America, she brings cultural adaptability and a bias for exploring unfamiliar technologies through hackathons, research, and side projects. Outside work she recharges with reading, hiking, and experimenting in the kitchen—habits that mirror her iterative, improvement-focused approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business at Wilfrid Laurier University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at International Baccalaureate
International exchange program, International exchange program at King's College London
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese