Summary
Junbo Li is a senior software engineer and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building large-scale data and ML infrastructure across Amazon and Meta. He has led Core AI foundation efforts at Amazon, designing self-service big data tooling, scalable ML pipelines, and analytics platforms used by scientists and engineers. Junbo blends deep backend systems expertise—Spark, EMR, Kubernetes, data lakes—with hands-on product work spanning pricing, ads, search, computer vision and econometrics. He also co-founded WhiMeet to tackle social anxiety through local, friend-hosted events, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak and product empathy beyond core infrastructure. Based in Seattle with an MEng in Computer Science, he consistently balances infrastructure reliability with practical scientist-facing tooling to accelerate ML incubation. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers deep understanding over shortcuts, turning complex research needs into production-ready platforms.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China