Li Tai
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Tai is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience applying extreme programming practices—TDD, pairing, and CI/CD—to deliver robust back-end systems. Educated at the University of Toronto (H.B.Sc. in Computer Science), Li spent much of his career at Pivotal Labs progressing from Associate to Senior Software Engineer, where he focused on high-quality, team-driven delivery. He contributes to open-source tooling such as LicenseFinder, adding Go "dep" package manager support to improve dependency license detection. Comfortable both writing production code and improving developer workflows, Li blends disciplined engineering practices with hands-on integration work. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a collaborative, test-first mindset and a knack for plumbing complex tooling into real projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
international baccalaureate diploma, international baccalaureate diploma at Island School Hong KongHonours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.), Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science (H.B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Toronto
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
rspec10
go10
package-management10
ruby10
yaml8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal/LicenseFinder
Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
Find licenses for your project's dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 101 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Li primarily contributed to the support of the "golang dep tool," adding functionality to parse and integrate dependencies managed by it. This involved implementing new package manager support for Go dependencies. The user's work included modifying and creating files related to the "dep" package manager, improving the features of the "licensefinder" repository for better functionality.
licensesdependencieserlangruby
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