Chongzhe Li is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building data-driven products at the intersection of search, machine learning, and developer tooling. He co-founded Insight.io to build semantic code search on Elasticsearch and led its acquisition by Elastic, later managing Elastic’s Code Search team to improve developer productivity. Earlier he helped launch LinkedIn’s China efforts and built recommender systems and ML infrastructure that scaled advertising and personalization. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and trained at Carnegie Mellon, he blends product instincts with hands-on engineering and investor-facing experience from a stint as an Entrepreneur in Residence focused on Robotics, AI and SaaS. Notably, he moves fluidly between founding startups, scaling platform teams, and shaping go-to-market and fundraising strategies.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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