Kaituo Li
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolKaituo Li is a senior software engineer with 12 years’ experience building high-performance distributed and database systems, currently focused on anomaly detection and zero-ETL features in OpenSearch at AWS. He has a strong systems research background (PhD-level work) and a track record of turning slow, timeout-prone services into fast, production-ready components—evidenced by a query statistics service for Redshift that reduced multiminute timeouts to seconds. Comfortable across storage, querying, ML, and program analysis, Kaituo blends rigorous research techniques with pragmatic engineering to improve correctness and observability in large-scale systems. He has taught and mentored at the university level, bringing clarity to complex systems topics and experience designing verification tools for storage workflows. Notably, his early research produced practical advances in dynamic invariant inference and symbolic example generation that informed later tooling and testing work. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he pairs deep academic foundations with decade-plus AWS production experience to ship robust, measurable improvements to cloud data platforms.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstB.E. Software Engineering, B.E. Software Engineering at Jilin UniversityM.E. Software Engineering, M.E. Software Engineering at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (76)
opensearch10
dashboard10
anomaly-detection10
detectors10
indices10
masking10
neighbors10
distro10
ppl10
imputation10
sql10
meilisearch10
search-engine10
periodic10
opensearch-dashboards10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kaituo/anomaly-detection-dashboards-plugin
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:52 pushes, 24 branches in 3 years 1 month
anomalyanomaly-detectiondashboardsopensearch-dashboardshistorical
opensearch-project/anomaly-detection
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Identify atypical data and receive automatic notifications
Contributions:3 releases, 900 reviews, 89 commits in 1 year 8 months
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