Diane Li
Mechanical Design Engineer at Heirloom
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDiane Li is a Mechanical Design Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and scaling hardware for clean-energy projects. She blends deep materials and mechanical engineering expertise from MIT with practical production experience at Tesla and Heirloom, where she moves concepts to robust prototypes and manufacturable parts. Diane has led cross-functional teams—most notably guiding a 20-person build from empty chassis to a road-legal, award-winning solar vehicle—and repeatedly applies rapid problem-solving in high-stakes, time-sensitive environments. Her work spans battery manufacturing fixtures, composite chassis fabrication, and wind-stable linkage mechanisms, reflecting a knack for low-cost, high-impact design. Energized by sustainability challenges, she pairs rigorous root-cause analysis with creative, field-tested solutions that accelerate deployment of climate technologies. A detail-minded mentor and former competition coach, she brings both technical depth and an unusual background in competitive creative problem solving to engineering teams.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, 4.9/5.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering, 4.9/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNJ Governor's School of Engineering and TechnologyPrinceton High School
English, French, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
DyanLi/qin_web
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
DyanLi/Advanced-Design-of-Algorithms
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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