Summary
Ben Li is a seasoned Chief Technical Architect based in Beijing with 11 years of experience building high-traffic, open-source driven web platforms and distributed systems. He has led architecture and hands-on engineering across e-commerce, web analytics, and SaaS products—designing scalable server stacks, custom high-performance C++ HTTP servers, and Java-based distributed data processors that handled hundreds of millions of daily events. Known for end-to-end expertise (Linux, Java/C++, Go, PHP, MySQL, Nginx/Apache) he blends infrastructure design, SQL performance tuning, and multi-threaded system optimization to keep mission-critical services online and efficient. As a former CTO/co-founder he pairs product-minded decision making with low-level performance engineering, having delivered rapid launches (eg. a China e-commerce site in three months) and bespoke queueing and clustering solutions. He also explores new tooling and contributes to community projects, reflecting a continual curiosity about practical, gadget-level innovation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineer, Bachelor Electrical Engineer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese