Summary
Gang Li is a Senior Technical Expert with 12 years building high-throughput CDN and streaming infrastructure at Alibaba, specializing in HTTP, proxies, live streaming (RTMP/FLV/HLS) and backend systems. A long-time contributor to Apache TrafficServer, he combines deep C/C++ systems expertise with Python scripting, GDB-driven debugging and a focus on performance and concurrency in Linux environments. At Alibaba he designed CDN delivery at multi-terabit scale, HTTP caching and security tooling that kept massive web traffic stable and fast. Based in Chaoyang, Beijing, he pairs academic grounding (Master’s in Software Engineering) with pragmatic production experience delivering real-time media and DNS/hijack mitigation systems. Notably, his work spans both core proxy servers and the streaming features layered atop them, reflecting a unique full-stack view of content delivery.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology