Hamlin Li
Software Engineer at Meta
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHamlin Li is a seasoned software engineer and JVM/platform specialist with over 8 years of experience building and tuning language runtimes, distributed systems, and performance-critical infrastructure. A former Principal Software Engineer at Oracle and openJDK committer/reviewer, he brings deep expertise in Java, bytecode, C/C++, concurrency, networking (TCP/IP, HTTP/2, QUIC) and cross-platform JVM engineering on Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes. He has driven runtime work for RISC‑V at Rivos and now contributes platform engineering at Meta, blending low-level systems programming with production-scale debugging, profiling and performance tuning. Educated in mechanical/electrical engineering and operations research, Hamlin pairs rigorous analytical thinking with hands-on implementation across multiple languages including Scala, Go and Python. An understated differentiator is his sustained track record of moving JVM internals from research into production-grade releases in open source ecosystems.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at National University of Defense TechnologyMaster's degree Operation Research, Master's degree Operation Research at National Defense University
Github Skills (78)
openjdk10
fourier-transform10
jvm10
java10
asynchronous10
native-library10
vector-math10
avx9
math-library9
quadruple-precision9
lz49
compression9
netty9
vectorization9
fft9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Hamlin-Li/jdk
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
JDK main-line development
Contributions:639 pushes, 366 branches in 4 years 2 months
openjdkjavajvmjdk
rivosinc/jdk-compact-2
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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