Brandon Li
Senior Software Engineer Tech Lead at Zip
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Li is a senior software engineer and tech lead based in San Francisco with seven years of experience building scalable, production AI and data systems. At Zip he progressed from engineering work on a zero-downtime migration and vendor onboarding platform to founding the contract orchestration BU, architecting RAG search, bulk import pipelines, and AI field extraction that helped scale the product to ~$1M ARR. He has a track record of reducing operational friction—e.g., halving vendor onboarding time and cutting migration/customer downtime from hours to minutes—by combining systems design with applied ML. Earlier roles at Microsoft and several product-focused engagements honed his skills in distributed systems, data integrity, and model deployment on Kubernetes. A UC Berkeley computer science student who ships pragmatic, measurable outcomes, he blends deep engineering with product sense and an eye for automation. Notably, he pairs traditional backend work with semantic search and vector databases, showing a knack for turning research ideas into revenue-driving features.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Fairview High School
Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
phetsims/collision-lab
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:1273 commits, 1109 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
brandonLi8/coveral
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:234 commits, 4 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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