Cody Li
Software Engineering Manager at Capital One
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolCody Li is a software engineering manager with 10 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale backend and data systems, currently leading engineering at Capital One in Washington, D.C. He’s driven major migrations and performance improvements—owning a Card Rewards engine that processes 30M+ transactions daily and migrating services from MongoDB to DocumentDB to cut costs and operational overhead. Cody combines data engineering and backend expertise (Spark, EMR, Kafka, Lambda, Glue, DynamoDB) with hands-on leadership, mentoring junior engineers and designing reliable APIs and microservices. His background includes healthcare interoperability work at Elation Health and a history of speeding up CI/CD and Spark workloads, reflecting a pragmatic focus on developer productivity as well as production reliability. An early research experience applying game theory to resource allocation hints at his analytical approach to system design and optimization.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Duke UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at Governor's School of North Carolina - West
English, German, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
amazon9
dedicated-server9
duke9
dotnet9
java7
aws-sdk7
sdk6
aws6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
duke-compsci308-spring2016/lab_rps
Jan 2016 - Apr 2021
Duke CompSci 308 Lab : Design for the game Rock-Paper-Scissors
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 3 months
scissorsrock-paper-scissors-gamerockrock-paper-scissorsduke
cl305/cl305.github.io
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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