Forrest Li
Senior Software Engineer at Heartflow
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chapel Hill with 12 years of experience building research-driven and production-grade systems. After a long R&D tenure at Kitware, he now applies that technical depth to medical imaging and clinical software at HeartFlow, blending research sensibilities with product delivery. His background spans CUDA/C++ GPU work, MATLAB data pipelines, and large-scale engineering—skills honed through academic research at UNC and an internship at Google. Forrest has a track record of turning complex scientific problems (from hybrid neuron simulations to microscopy analysis) into usable tools, and he brings a pragmatic, experiment-first approach to engineering in regulated domains.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (177)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/VolView
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Kitware VolView: an all-in-one radiological viewer!
Contributions:3 releases, 290 reviews, 812 commits in 2 years 11 months
kitware
floryst/vesselseg
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:131 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
vesselvessel-segmentationsegmentation
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