Jacky Li
Technical Project Manager at Veolia UK
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJacky Li is a Technical Project Manager with 11 years’ experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across the UK, Europe, Asia and North America to deliver complex e-banking, e-commerce, telecom (4G/5G) and IoT solutions. He blends hands-on backend engineering experience—demonstrated by significant contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Apache CarbonData (VP/Chairman/Committer) and Apache Spark—with program and product delivery skills. Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese, he excels at cross-cultural stakeholder management and mentoring teams of 5–30 members in distributed environments. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and high personal integrity, he has repeatedly delivered concurrent projects involving cloud (AWS), SaaS/PaaS and data-intensive systems. An unusual mix of technical depth and program-level oversight, he often pairs code-level optimizations (e.g., data loading and compression work) with strategic project governance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at The University of GlamorganBSc, BSc at Dalian University of Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
spark10
big-data10
java10
ml10
scala10
data-storage10
javas10
data-loading10
sql10
compress9
dataframe9
dataframes9
compression9
file-format8
hadoop7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/carbondata
Jul 2016 - Mar 2020
High performance data store solution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 531 commits, 418 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacky primarily worked on implementing new features and fixing existing issues within the Apache CarbonData project, with a focus on data loading and storage functionality. The commits demonstrate expertise in the integration of data from various sources, including handling diverse data types, into the CarbonData file format. They also were responsible for optimizing and refactoring the data writing process by adding in a compression module.
carbondatadata-formatdata-storeapachebig-data
apache/spark
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacky primarily contributed to the Apache Spark project by fixing bugs, improving code quality, and enhancing functionality related to SQL and MLlib. They refactored and optimized existing code, removed unnecessary imports, and added parameters to improve configuration options. The user's contributions included making wait times configurable in BroadcastHashJoin, adding a configurable `numRows` parameter to `DataFrame.show()`, and improving the LiveJournalPageRank example.
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