Summary
Desheng Li is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience building data-driven systems, currently at Aurora after progressing from Senior Software Engineer roles there and at Uber. He has deep experience in higher education and research settings, most notably architecting microservices, ETL pipelines, and Elasticsearch-backed search for University of Pittsburgh data projects and accelerating ETL performance by 80%. Comfortable across Python/Flask, Java, and frontend frameworks, he has delivered distributed query applications and production-ready data management platforms. With an MBA and a technical master’s in electrical and computer engineering, he pairs engineering execution with product and business insight to drive pragmatic, high-impact solutions. An early background in hardware/software test automation shows he thinks end-to-end—from regression tooling to scalable services.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Wuhan University of Technology
Master Electrion and Computer Engineering, Master Electrion and Computer Engineering at University of Detroit Mercy
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business
English, Chinese, Chinese