Emily Li
Staff Software Engineer at ServiceNow
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Li is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building large-scale data and seller-facing platforms using Scala, Java, Spring, Spark, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch. She has driven high-throughput services at eBay—designing ingestion pipelines, ElasticSearch schemas, and Java domain APIs that serve millions of business sellers with multi-year historical data—and now contributes at ServiceNow at a senior, cross-functional level. Emily combines deep backend and data-platform expertise with hands-on leadership as an agile lead and mentor, guiding architecture, testing, and functional programming adoption. Her background in risk-oriented Spark/Hadoop systems at Barclays and an MSc in Applied Computer Science underpin a pragmatic approach to performance and data-quality tradeoffs. Notably, she pairs enterprise-scale engineering with early-career customer-facing operations experience, giving her a strong sense for product usability and team dynamics.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computing with Psychological Studies, Bachelor’s Degree Computing with Psychological Studies at The Open UniversityMaster of Science - MS Applied Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Applied Computer Science at University of Brighton
Github Skills (10)
restful10
search-engine10
elasticsearch10
opensearch10
java10
functional-programming8
reactive-programming7
javascript7
haskell6
api2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emily-li/gws
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 4 months
emily-li/spring-data-jpa-example
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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