Li Chen
Senior SDE at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Diamond Bar, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Chen is a senior software engineer with over two decades of experience building production systems across cloud, IoT, and quantum domains, currently contributing to AWS’s quantum hardware stack. He combines hands-on prototyping with deep systems design—authoring the open-source Kinesis Agent for Windows and original OpenQASM/OpenPulse reference implementations, and co-authoring Oqpy. His work spans low-latency classical/quantum pipelines, FPGA HLS/HDL for quantum error correction, protocol analysis for IoT, and large-scale telemetry agents that have saved AWS millions. Comfortable across Python, C/C++, Rust, JVM languages and cloud platforms, he also has compiler and FPGA expertise (Antlr/LLVM/custom instructions) rarely found in senior cloud engineers. Trained as a physicist (USC PhD), he brings a research mindset to pragmatic engineering, with a history of shipping products in startups and enterprise environments.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics at Fudan University
Github Skills (13)
python9
kubernetes9
npm4
nodejs4
cli4
single-page4
react3
data-science3
web-application3
redux2
data-engineering2
npm-cli2
gatsby1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chen1649chenli/Leetcode
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:288 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
chen1649chenli/Object-Oriented-Design
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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