Janet Li
Software Engineer at Cursor
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJanet Li is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with six years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and research-driven ML pipelines. She has shipped infrastructure and product features at startups and large tech companies, including work on Find on Page OCR and search filters at Microsoft Edge, low-latency ingestion and GraphQL APIs for sports data, and infrastructure at Anyscale before joining Cursor. Her background blends academic research—developing deep generative models for metabolite structure prediction at MIT—with hands-on production engineering in Go, Java, TypeScript, and React. A Harvard-trained computer scientist who has taught CS courses, she brings both rigorous technical foundations and clear communication to cross-functional teams. Notably, she has experience converting research prototypes into reliable services used in real-time settings, reflecting a knack for bridging ML research and production systems.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Harvard UniversityPalo Alto High School
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
pytorch10
parallel10
rllib10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
scaling10
llm-inference10
llm10
hyperparameter-optimization10
mlops10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Wave-Learning-Festival/Wave-Learning-Festival
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 review, 107 PRs, 174 pushes in 1 month
janetli19/hodp-course-enrollment
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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