Summary
C Li is a software engineering manager in San Jose with 13 years of experience building customer-focused embedded and computer vision systems, currently leading Vision Pro hand-tracking software at Apple. He combines deep low-level expertise (C/C++, VHDL/Verilog, FPGA design) with product instincts honed through direct customer engagement and SDK/porting work at Netflix. His career spans five countries across three continents and includes founding an open camera platform, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and hands-on delivery. He has a strong academic foundation (M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Calgary) and a track record of translating hardware-constrained designs into shipped products. Fluent in English and Mandarin, he excels at bridging cross-functional teams and SoC partners to solve hard integration problems. Less obvious: he repeatedly ships customer-facing SDKs and frameworks that turn internal capabilities into commercial products, not just prototypes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, 3.8, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, 3.8 at The University of Calgary
chinese mandrain, English, Japanese