Jianyan Li
Software Engineer at Instacart
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJianyan Li is a software engineer with seven years of practical experience building backend systems, test frameworks, and data pipelines, currently contributing to Ads at Instacart. A University of Waterloo graduate with a 93 GPA and multiple scholarships, he pairs strong academic foundations with production experience across companies like BlackBerry QNX, Yugabyte, and Wish. He designed a portable, CI-integrated test framework that automated testing across 12 platform variants and ported several C/C++ projects to QNX, boosting developer productivity. Jianyan has worked across languages and domains—from C++ performance work on distributed databases to Python microservices, Kafka ETL pipelines, and Groovy-based enterprise systems—demonstrating adaptability to both systems and service-level engineering. He also has research experience in batteryless wireless touch interfaces, showing an appetite for low-level systems and unconventional inputs. Pragmatic and results-driven, he excels at turning complex compatibility and performance challenges into repeatable, automated solutions.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (14)
c-language10
distributed-systems10
cprogramming-language10
distributed-database10
sql10
database-design10
yugabytedb10
cloud-native9
database-administration9
kubernetes8
testing8
kubernetes-pods8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Simonliuwaterloo/meetworth-release
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
Simonliuwaterloo/leetcode_python
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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