Chao Li
Head Of Engineering - Innovation Technologies
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChao Li is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production systems and consumer products across startups and Google. Currently Head of Engineering for Innovation Technologies in Mountain View, he has a proven track record as a founder/CTO who shipped a consumer app to market with 200k+ App Store views and a 4.9 rating while driving meaningful CAC and cost savings through ASO and strategic cloud partnerships. At Google he engineered high-throughput data pipelines and real-time Bigtable ingestion for YouTube Analytics and led fraud-mitigation and KYC initiatives impacting millions of users. Comfortable spanning hands-on systems work in Java/C++ to product-led growth, he blends deep technical execution with MBA-trained strategic thinking. Less obvious: he pairs enterprise-grade backend expertise with consumer marketing instincts, making him effective at both cost-optimizing infrastructure and scaling user engagement.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Physics, Master of Science, Physics at San José State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Chinese
Github Skills (34)
amplify9
barrage9
storage9
aws-amplify9
aws9
aws-s39
cloud-services9
react9
boilerplate8
aws-mobile8
mobile-analytics8
amazon-cognito8
pouchdb8
sst8
aws-apigateway8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lichao0817/DocViewer
May 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
lichao0817/lichao0817.github.io
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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