Summary
David Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native systems. Currently at Asana, he focuses on full-stack goals and achievement technologies using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Scala, and AWS. Previously at AWS he led a ten-engineer team to architect high-throughput data ingestion and indexing pipelines, broke monoliths into microservices and micro-frontends to accelerate delivery fivefold, and drove reusable UI/component strategies. At early-stage startup Quartermaster he led product and architecture efforts that boosted return visits 160% and cut critical TTI by over 60%, demonstrating a blend of product-minded engineering and performance optimization. A perpetual learner and dreamer by description, he pairs strong academic foundations in computer science and biochemistry with hands-on mentorship and cross-team leadership. He gravitates toward high-impact problems and building reusable systems that scale both engineering velocity and user value.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.00, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.00 at Oregon State University
Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, 3.86, Bachelor’s Degree, Biochemistry, 3.86 at McGill University
Chinese, French, English