Hengfeng Li
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHengfeng Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, data pipelines, and storage solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne and has applied that research rigor to production services at Google, focusing on Cloud Spanner and its PostgreSQL interface. His background spans end-to-end data engineering—ETL, event-stream architectures, and cloud-native deployment—across Google Cloud and AWS, with hands-on experience in Kafka-like systems, Glue/Spark, Redshift/BigQuery, Kubernetes, and observability stacks. He moved from building data capture and crawler systems at startups to driving database client libraries and migration tooling at Google, giving him both product-driven and systems-level perspectives. Colleagues rely on him for translating research-grade algorithms into reliable, scalable infrastructure and for tackling the cross-cutting challenges of cloud databases and large-scale data movement.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Software Engineering at Beihai College of Beihang UniversityThe University of Melbourne
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
spanner2
gcp2
stream2
python2
tushare2
bosh1
data-stream1
aws1
backup1
secrets1
scheduler1
security1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hengfengli/Higher-IBM-Models
Apr 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:16 commits in 3 years
HengfengLi/Spelling-Correction
Mar 2012 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 commits in 5 years 1 month
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