levi
Software Engineer at KONG INC
SF Bay Area, United States
Summary
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SeniorLevi Lian is a CEO and seasoned product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building AI-infused products, developer tools, and scalable web systems across startups and large companies. He’s led LLM enterprise deployments and AI assistants at Uber, drove SaaS product work at Intuit, and shipped reproducible ML tooling at Stanford SAIL, pairing deep technical chops (MS CS, Symbolic Systems from Stanford) with an MBA from Harvard. As an active investor and angel he’s helped multiple startups scale—from stealth healthcare AI to robotics and consumer brands—bringing operator empathy to early-stage GTM and product decisions. He contributes to open-source documentation and front-end UX improvements (notably to Kong’s docs site), showing a focus on usability and developer experience beyond core engineering. Based in New York, Levi blends hands-on engineering, product strategy, and venture insight, and often operates at the intersection of AI research, developer tooling, and commercial growth.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
css10
responsive-design10
mobile-development9
ui-design9
interface-design9
lessc9
user-interface9
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/docs.konghq.com
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
🦍 Archived repo for docs.konghq.com website. Use https://github.com/Kong/developer.konghq.com instead.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:245 commits, 399 PRs, 597 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Levi primarily contributed to the documentation website's front-end, focusing on CSS and layout improvements. They made several commits that involved fixing the mobile menu, adjusting the styling of tables, and enhancing the overall user interface. A significant portion of the changes involved modifying CSS files to correct visual bugs and improve responsiveness across different devices. The user's work primarily aimed at improving the website's aesthetics and usability.
kong
catfishbluefish/bug-avoider
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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