Summary
Lei Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 15 years of experience building data-intensive, low-latency systems across premier tech firms. He has deep expertise in C++, Python, JavaScript, Java and even Fortran, and has driven large-scale distributed systems work—most recently on Google's distributed file system and previously on Facebook's end-to-end tracing at massive scale. At Bloomberg he handled hundreds of millions of daily portfolio data points and migrated legacy messaging stacks to Kafka, Cassandra and Redis, demonstrating both performance-first engineering and pragmatic modernization. His background includes porting WebKit to mobile at BlackBerry, evidencing a strong systems and cross-platform pedigree. A team player and avid sports fan, Lei combines rigorous problem solving with hands-on delivery of high-throughput services and observability tooling.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Fudan University
Chinese, English