Jack Li
Production Engineer at Instagram
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Li is a production engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling deployment and reliability systems for high-traffic consumer products. He has driven production and performance work across Instagram (Stories, Feed, Reels, Direct) at Meta and previously helped scale Shopify’s deployment infrastructure, continuous delivery, merge queue and canary systems. A pragmatic generalist, Jack blends backend engineering, API design and release tooling—evident from contributions to Shopify’s popular shipit-engine where he added API endpoints and deployment-fault logic. He has a track record of improving testing and release velocity from early co-op projects through senior roles, and often focuses on making systems observable, automatable and resilient. Based in Dallas with a University of Waterloo CS background, he pairs large-company reliability experience with a history of hands-on systems and kernel-level work from internships. Notably, he led technical onboarding initiatives at Shopify, showing an interest in developer experience and team enablement beyond pure engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bayview Secondary SchoolComputer Science Co-op, Computer Science Co-op at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
rest-api10
rails10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
ruby10
rspec9
git8
deploying7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shipit-engine
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
Deployment coordination
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 31 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `shipit-engine` repository, focusing on API enhancements. Their commits introduced new API endpoints for retrieving the latest task, deploy tasks, and undeployed commits. They also modified existing controllers and routes, while refactoring code to align with the new API features. Furthermore, the user implemented logic to mark rollbacks and deploys as faulty in specific scenarios.
continuous-deploymentdeploymentcoordinationdockercontinuous-delivery
JackTLi/terminal-settings
Oct 2016 - Apr 2020
Dotfiles and etc
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
dotfilesvimzsh
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