Daze Li is an energy-focused executive and engineer with 11 years of experience bridging petroleum engineering, energy economics, and commercial leadership. Trained in reservoir simulation and offshore heavy-oil thermal methods, he later added Mineral Energy Economics and an MBA in Supply Chain Management to translate technical models into market-facing strategies across oil, gas, coal and power. As General Manager and former Principal Sales Engineer at Hypec Inc., he combines deadline-driven team leadership with quantitative skills in EViews, R and Crystal Ball for asset valuation and price forecasting. He also contributes to open-source Java utilities, improving date/time conversions and data-masking tools, reflecting a pragmatic engineering mindset beyond energy markets. Based in Golden, Colorado, he excels at turning complex, ambiguous problems into actionable commercial outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Petroleum Engineering at China University of Geosciences
Master’s Degree, Mineral Energy Economics, Master’s Degree, Mineral Energy Economics at Colorado School of Mines
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management at Clarkson University
Master’s Degree, Petroleum Engineering, Master’s Degree, Petroleum Engineering at China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
Master’s Degree, Petroleum Economics and Management, Master’s Degree, Petroleum Economics and Management at IFP School
Contributions:92 commits, 1 issue in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Daze contributed to the `hutool` Java library, focusing on the creation of utility classes for date and time manipulation. Their work included implementing conversion utilities between `java.util.Date` and Java 8's `LocalDate`, `LocalDateTime`, and `LocalTime`. The user also added unit tests to validate the functionality of the newly created date and time transformation tools. Furthermore, they enhanced the existing functionalities related to validating and manipulating strings, like the addition of methods for string truncation and masking for data protection.
Contributions:15 PRs, 93 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
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