Summary
Hongyan Li is a senior software engineer based in Bellevue, WA, with over two decades in engineering and 11 years of focused experience building scalable backend systems and ML pipelines. Currently at SAP Concur/SAP, she designs and maintains data-science infrastructure, implementing labeling and SageMaker-based ML pipelines using Python and a broad set of AWS services. Her background spans enterprise Java architectures, event-driven systems with Kafka, and healthcare analytics and interoperability (HL7 FHIR), reflecting both deep systems design and domain fluency. She has led teams and run full SDLC/DevOps practices, shipping microservices, CI/CD, and data validation tooling across startups and large enterprises. Notably, her early scientific training in physical oceanography and applied data science from MIT gives her a rare blend of quantitative modeling and production engineering instincts. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex domain requirements into robust, production-ready pipelines and APIs.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Atmospheric Physics, BS, Atmospheric Physics at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Ph.D., Physical Oceanography at University of Connecticut
Applied Data Science Program, Applied Data Science, Exceptional, Applied Data Science Program, Applied Data Science, Exceptional at MIT Professional Education
Master, Physical Oceangraphy, Master, Physical Oceangraphy at Institute of Oceanology,Chinese Academy of Sciences
English, Chinese