Jimmy Li
Head Of Engineering at Conversion
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Li is a Head of Engineering based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling platform, product, and security-focused infrastructure for high-growth startups and large teams. He led backend and infra from seed to Series A at Conversion, architecting Kubernetes-based compute platforms, Kafka worker queues, and core services (payments, LLM integrations, scheduling) used by thousands of businesses. Jimmy has deep production security and observability experience from multiple roles at Pinterest and contributions to secret-management tooling (pinterest/knox) that improved key-access metrics and access control signals. His background includes high-throughput systems work (real-time bidding and 100k+ QPS ingestion redesigns) and machine-learning research projects, giving him a rare blend of infra, security, and ML-savvy engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who prioritizes development velocity without sacrificing reliability or customer satisfaction. He’s actively hiring and enjoys tackling hard problems like workflow execution engines and scaling event-driven systems to millions of events.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyTroy High School
Github Skills (7)
access-control10
monitoring10
go10
api10
apidoc10
metric10
secret-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/knox
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Knox is a secret management service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to adding metrics and improving the observability of the Knox secret management service. They added metrics related to key access success and failures, including the reason for failures. Further contributions include implementing the sending of the principal used to access a key, along with conditional responses based on user agent. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing monitoring and access control within the system.
knoxsecret-managementsecrets-managerservice-managementsecrets
jimmyl02/jimmyl02.github.io
Aug 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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