Jerry Li
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Zipline
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerry Li is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing firmware and systems for robotics, IoT, and depth-sensing products. He spent a significant portion of his career at Microsoft building Time-of-Flight depth sensor firmware for HoloLens and Azure Kinect, and now applies that hardware-focused firmware expertise to autonomous systems at Zipline. A Waterloo Mechatronics graduate, he blends low-level C/C++ embedded work, FPGA/CPLD experience, and Linux driver development with practical robotics systems integration from his rover and IoT tracker projects. Known for squeezing power out of constrained devices and enabling live in-field reprogramming, he favors shipping reliable, testable firmware that bridges sensors, edge compute, and product-scale deployment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Westmount Secondary SchoolBachelor's Degree Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
sdk10
openvr10
kinect10
azure-kinect10
depth-camera10
steamvr9
windows7
linux7
azure7
firmware6
cross-platform6
rover6
ros4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uwrobotics/MarsRover2018-firmware
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Firmware for UWRT Mars Rover 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 8 PRs, 22 pushes in 10 months
mars-roverrovermarsfirmware
lijerryli/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
Apr 2021 - May 2022
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
windowslinuxkinectsdkcross-platform
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