Summary
Jerry Li is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of hands-on programming experience and a formal Computer Science background from UCLA. He specializes in data infrastructure, event-logging pipelines, growth and marketing optimization, and has applied ML and feature engineering in production at companies including Robinhood and Instagram. A competitive programmer who qualified for the 2017 ICPC World Finals regionals and won multiple hackathon prizes, he pairs strong algorithmic thinking with practical backend and data engineering skills across Java, Python, and C++. His internships include building an end-to-end IoT telemetry stack and a web GUI for Apache Trafodion, demonstrating an ability to move projects from prototype to demo at industry conferences. He also co-directed a large youth coding bootcamp and hackathon, showing a knack for teaching, community building, and operational execution beyond pure engineering.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Amador Valley High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Chinese