Summary
Andy Li is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building growth and integrity systems at Meta and Instagram, currently focused on AI product growth for Metaverse Avatars. He has shipped end-to-end automated pipelines for high-quality avatar generation and worked on AR face expression tracking, computer vision, and large-scale growth engineering that supported Instagram’s expansion to hundreds of millions of users. Early work at Facebook included comment-spam detection, ranking features, and data pipelines that classified tens of thousands of spam comments daily, reflecting strong ML, data engineering, and systems instincts. Comfortable across backend, ML, and frontend stacks (Python, Presto/Hive, React, PHP/Hack), he pairs production-grade engineering with applied research from his University of Washington CS and applied math background. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates research techniques like PCA into reliable product features. Based in Seattle, he blends deep product-growth experience with computer vision and integrity expertise that few growth engineers combine.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Applied Math - Scientific Computing, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Applied Math - Scientific Computing at University of Washington
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Troy High School
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanxi Experimental Secondary School
Chinese, English, French