Jene Li is a software engineering manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building scalable infrastructure at Google, currently leading Backend Infrastructure for YouTube’s Media Generator platform to enable GenAI features. He progressed from senior mobile and client infrastructure roles into staff engineering and now management, combining deep systems knowledge with people leadership. Jene specializes in backend systems, logging, and production reliability, with hands-on experience shipping large-scale services used by millions. He holds a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley and brings a pragmatic balance of technical depth and product-focused delivery. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves quickly from prototyping to production while mentoring engineers across cross-functional teams.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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