Summary
Ethan Li is a Software Engineer II with eight years of hands-on experience building embedded and cloud-connected systems, currently contributing to Alarm.com in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. A George Mason University computer engineering graduate, he has a background in firmware, FPGA design, and C++ protocol integration from his work at Kratos, where he advanced firmware schedules and implemented Vita 49.2 networked radio messaging using AWS and Docker. At Kratos he led a successful side project testing radio traffic and earned a Spot Award for a customer demonstration and team mentoring—signals of both technical ownership and effective collaboration. Transitioning to Alarm.com, Ethan now applies that embedded-systems grounding to deliver reliable software at scale in a commercial IoT context. He combines low-level hardware fluency with cloud and container experience, making him a pragmatic engineer who bridges firmware and backend systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at George Mason University