Summary
Ethan Li is an AI and data science leader with 12 years’ experience building production ML and analytics platforms for telecommunications and utilities, currently serving as Chapter Lead - AI Product at One New Zealand. He combines hands-on skills in R, Python and SQL with a statistics-first mindset from a First Class M.Sc., repeatedly moving models from research into scalable product features like marketing propensity, account risk, and network capacity planning. Ethan has progressed through technical and product leadership roles—Principal Data Scientist to AI Foundation Lead and Product Owner—demonstrating an ability to bridge engineering, product and business stakeholders. He also co-founded a cloud data analytics startup for recruitment agencies and advises companies on data engineering and advanced analytics, showing an appetite for productising data capabilities beyond telecom. Colleagues would note his strength in turning complex spatial and time-series problems into pragmatic operational solutions that drive strategic decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) (Hons, First Class), Statistics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) (Hons, First Class), Statistics at University of Auckland
English, cantonese (chinese), Chinese