Karney Li
Advisor at Wealthsimple
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKarney Li is a seasoned technology leader and chief architect with 18+ years building scalable supply chain, e-commerce, and financial systems across Amazon, Instacart, and Wealthsimple. He led core fulfillment and order-planning systems at Amazon that powered Kindle, Prime, and warehouse automation, then scaled engineering and product delivery as CTO and VP at Wealthsimple and Instacart. Karney specializes in assembling and mentoring high-performing engineering teams while driving architecture for complex, real-time logistics and enterprise retail solutions. Based in Toronto, he combines deep systems design—distributed data stores, testable workflows, and control systems—with hands-on delivery experience across startups and large-scale platforms. A pragmatic builder who migrates operational lessons into product strategy, he continues to recruit and develop talent to tackle next-generation eCommerce and fulfillment challenges.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo - St. Jerome's UniversityBachelor, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor, Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (35)
buildpack8
message-handler8
heroku7
java7
angularjs7
microservices6
oracle6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby6
relay5
orchestration5
html5
rails5
open-source5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
luizalabs/heroku-buildpack-oracle
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
Heroku buildpack for setting up oracle
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 6 months
buildpackheroku
btelles/validates_and_formats_phones
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
An ActiveRecord extension that helps you format and validate phone numbers.
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 4 months
activerecord
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