Kuan-yu Li
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKuan-yu Li is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, currently leading work on Trino at LinkedIn after a tenure as a senior engineer at Snowflake. He has driven backend platform initiatives—service placement, high-performance service directories, and real-time instance telemetry—that enabled autoscaling, HTAP, and routing migrations from NGINX to Envoy. Earlier work at Facebook improved Spark’s join and update performance, added MERGE semantics, and contributed to the Magma open-source mobile core by hardening builds and Diameter/session handling. He combines hands-on systems design, operational reliability, and cost-aware productization (e.g., adding billable SPCS metering) with experience across Go, Java/Scala, C/C++, and cloud-native tooling. Based in Mountain View, he pairs academic foundations from Georgia Tech and international study with pragmatic delivery as a tech lead of cross-functional teams. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical fixes to widely used projects that improve build reproducibility and runtime stability.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics Engineering; Computer Science (minor), Bachelor’s Degree Electronics Engineering; Computer Science (minor) at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyExchange Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Exchange Student Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Southampton
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
go10
networking10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
network-protocol9
5g8
package-manager8
4g8
debian-packaging8
packager8
package-management8
package8
cprogramming-language7
c-language7
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
magma/magma
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 50 commits, 18 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kuan-yu focused on improving the Magma platform, primarily by addressing issues related to missing dependencies and configuration. They contributed by including missing directories and scripts in the setup files, improving the build process for Debian packages. They also added and modified code related to network access modes and Diameter protocol interactions to enhance the functionality of the gateway. Additionally, they fixed a sessiond crash related to credit objects and adapted MME name encoding.
pythonmobileltevagrant5g
fishlinghu/magma
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Contributions:9 pushes, 18 branches in 4 months
networkinginfrastructure-managementjunipermodularnetwork
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