Summary
Hui Li is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems and developer platforms, currently working at Google in Seattle. Previously at PayPal, Hui designed and implemented Golang and Java services for test environments, performance engineering, and blue-green deployment strategies, and led migrations to distributed tracing with Splunk SignalFX. He brings strong production experience with cloud-native stacks (GCP, Docker), databases (MySQL, MongoDB, HBase), and service APIs, plus hands-on profiling and performance tooling that helped teams uncover bottlenecks. Hui’s earlier work at ByteDance combined large-scale data processing with ML-driven product improvements, boosting service performance and retention through data-informed features. A strong academic background from Hong Kong Baptist University and Boston University underpins a practical focus on reliability, observability, and fast developer feedback loops. Notably, he has blended research and engineering from internships in ML and healthcare into pragmatic, production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Major-3.94/4.0 Cumulative-3.59/4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Major-3.94/4.0 Cumulative-3.59/4.0 at Hong Kong Baptist University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.72/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.72/4.0 at Boston University
English, Chinese