Eric Li
Design Engineer at Notion
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Li is a design-minded engineer who blends product strategy, front-end engineering, and visual arts to craft thoughtful digital experiences across museums, startups, and academia. With 11 years of experience, he’s driven design-led technical work at MoMA, IDEO, and Google and founded the Digital Product team at the Eames Institute. He moves fluidly between rapid prototyping and production systems, having led product at Orchard Analytics and now working as a Design Engineer at Notion. He teaches computer science to designers at Parsons, bringing practical engineering rigor into communication design curricula. Known for a playful, exploratory approach—summed up by his GitHub bio “designing time machines”—he focuses on long-lasting user experiences rather than short-term polish. Based in New York, he combines a Princeton CS + Visual Arts background with hands-on design engineering to bridge creative ideas and reliable implementation.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Hotchkiss SchoolBachelor of Science and Engineering (B.S.E.) Computer Science Visual Arts, Bachelor of Science and Engineering (B.S.E.) Computer Science Visual Arts at Princeton University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
objective-c9
swift8
maintenance-mode8
scraper8
ios8
material-components7
database6
material-design6
ui-components6
interaction5
markdown4
spring-boot4
spring4
java3
cms1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eli8527/poetryfoundation-scraper
May 2015 - Jul 2018
Scraper for Poetry Foundation Website
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 2 months
scraper
RiversInstitute/rivers
Aug 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:35 reviews, 37 PRs, 161 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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