Hongyi Li is a technology leader with 13 years of experience building public-sector and consumer-facing products, currently serving as Director at Open Government Products, GovTech Singapore. He has a track record of scaling teams and platforms—founding a 22-person multi-disciplinary team, growing Data.gov.sg from 10k to 500k monthly visits, and launching Parking.sg used by ~1.1M users. Equally comfortable with product strategy and low-level engineering, he has designed encryption and distributed access-control systems, payment batching and idempotent APIs, and led major UI and monetization efforts at Google. His background blends MIT computer science and economics training with hands-on roles from platoon commander to product manager, which informs his pragmatic approach to organizational design and recruitment. Notably, he instituted new recruiting and performance systems that multiplied qualified applicants and reduced management overhead while delivering high-impact civic technology.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate Exchange Economics, Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate Exchange Economics at University of Cambridge
Contributions:8 PRs, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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