Kaiyuan Li
Software Engineer at Facebook
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Top SchoolKaiyuan Li is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable systems at large tech companies, currently working at Facebook after roles on YouTube backend productivity at Google and test engineering at MathWorks. He blends a strong research background—a Ph.D. in Nondestructive Evaluation and Energy Harvesting—with hands-on expertise in software engineering and test automation. His career spans backend productivity tooling, large-scale service development, and rigorous testing practices that improve developer efficiency and system robustness. Trained originally in electrical and electronics engineering, he brings cross-disciplinary insights from physics, acoustics, and electronics to software problems. Known for wide-ranging technical curiosity, he often applies measurement-driven and experimental approaches uncommon in standard engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanjing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nondestructive Evaluation; Energy Harvesting, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nondestructive Evaluation; Energy Harvesting at University of Pittsburgh
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
typescript8
vscode-extension7
electron7
microsoft7
vscode7
editor7
visual-studio-code6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kaiyuanl/kws
Feb 2016 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
kaiyuanl/stat.toutiao.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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