Summary
John Li is a Staff Android Engineer with 13 years of mobile experience, currently shaping developer platform and performance at Reddit after senior roles at Nextdoor, Twitter, and Wayfair. He blends hands-on architecture—modularization, performance tracing, and CI/observability—with people leadership, having led chapters of Android engineers and run learning initiatives that saved thousands of developer hours. A prolific community organizer and presenter, he organized 55+ internal tech talks at Wayfair and ran a long-running meetup series, archiving 90% of sessions for future learning. John is a pragmatic tinkerer and hackathon veteran (wins at Universal Studios, Humana, Orlando Magic, NASA), who continuously experiments with new ideas and documents lessons on Medium and GitHub.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Game Development, BS Game Development at Full Sail University