David Li
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDavid Li is a Staff Software Engineer based in Vancouver with 12 years of experience building scalable, production-critical systems across e-commerce and consumer products. He led Etsy’s multi-year Experimentation modernization—cutting UI latency 10x, moving core compute from PHP to Python, and enabling rapid feature rollout through a React front end—while coordinating cross-org efforts and mentoring a team of ICs. Prior work at Amazon includes shipping features for Alexa experiences and enterprise integrations for Amazon Business, demonstrating a mix of customer-facing product delivery and backend systems engineering. A pragmatic engineer who prefers Python and Vim, he blends hands-on coding with architectural decisions that measurably improve developer productivity and business metrics. An unexpected strength is his track record of operationalizing test and alerting platforms that save thousands of user-hours annually and make experimentation safer and faster.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Competent Communicator Public Speaking, Competent Communicator Public Speaking at Toastmasters InternationalBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaDiploma Higher Education/Higher Education Administration, Diploma Higher Education/Higher Education Administration at International Baccalaureate
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (1)
java6
Github contributions (5)
CanadaBestSeller/OriginalSafetyApp
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 7 days
CanadaBestSeller/ViralAutomation
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 3 months
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