Summary
Harvey Li is a Lead Data Engineer with 12 years’ experience based in Singapore, currently heading a four-person team at Grab focused on metadata management and data discoverability. He leads development of Hubble, Grab’s next‑gen metadata platform built on and extending open-source DataHub, and has contributed multiple upstream pull requests including a high-impact Presto-on-Hive ingestion plugin that reduced Hive metadata ingestion from ~20 hours to under 30 minutes for 100K+ tables. Known for pragmatic engineering at scale, he balances platform-building, data lineage, ownership and quality with hands-on contributions to open-source tooling. A Nanyang Technological University engineering graduate, he combines deep systems thinking with a track record of operational improvements that materially speed up data operations.
12 years of coding experience