Summary
Joni Li is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable cloud applications and high-performance data platforms, currently leading engineering efforts at SonicWall in San Jose. He has a strong track record designing and implementing large-volume data processing, predictive modeling, and machine learning engines—having single-handedly built a native modeling core that reduced model build times from weeks to minutes. Comfortable across C++, Java, multithreading and AWS, he focuses on flexible, reliable architectures for commercial products and cloud-native services. His background in physics and computer science underpins a quantitative approach to algorithm design and data enrichment at scale. Known jokingly as a "Dinosaur Developer," he blends legacy-language performance sensibilities with modern cloud practices to avoid extinctions in production systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics, B.S. Physics at Zhongshan University
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
Chinese