Cheng Li
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng Li is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with nine years of experience building large-scale, production-critical systems across ad tech, e-commerce, and cloud services. He has driven tech and people outcomes at Wayfair and AWS—leading platforms that handled billions in ad revenue and moving between individual contributor and engineering manager roles. At Cimpress and Staples he combined infrastructure automation, data platform ops, and backend services to improve reliability and cut costs, and he continues to apply that systems-thinking at Apple. Cheng contributes to open-source C++ geometry tooling (libigl), focusing on numerical correctness and robustness—an indication of his attention to mathematical detail beneath higher-level systems. Comfortable across Java, cloud-native tooling (GCP/AWS), Kafka, and distributed data stacks, he blends hands-on debugging with architectural leadership. Reachable at licheng019@gmail.com, he’s interested in technical discussions and collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electronic engineering networking, Master's degree Electronic engineering networking at New York UniversityBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Wichita State University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
eigen10
cprogramming-language10
geometry-processing10
linear-algebra9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
libigl/libigl
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Simple MPL-2.0-licensed C++ geometry processing library.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Cheng primarily contributed to the `libigl/libigl` repository by fixing existing code and adding new functionality to existing files. Their commits focus on correcting errors related to mathematical operations and improving the overall stability and robustness of the library. The code changes include bug fixes and ensuring that all functionality performs as expected.
cppcluster-computingc-plus-plusgeometry-processingprocessing-library
KarlLeell/PICMathSubway
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:54 PRs, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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