Summary
Karen Li is a software engineer with seven years of experience blending machine learning infrastructure, HCI, and product development, now working on fine-tuning APIs as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has built ML and detection infrastructure at companies like Stripe and contributed to Blueprint AI at Gavel, while also interning on product and trading teams that sharpened her systems and product instincts. A Harvard CS graduate and former CS course assistant, she combines teaching experience with hands-on engineering, mentoring peers as Co-President of Harvard Women in Computer Science. She’s equally at home prototyping user-facing features and low-latency backend systems, with a particular interest in making ML workflows more usable and production-ready. Outside engineering, she’s an educator and pianist, reflecting a habit of disciplined practice and creative problem-solving that informs her technical work.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Mission San Jose High School
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Harvard University