Li Tan
Software Engineer at Google
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Tan is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building research-driven systems and machine learning infrastructure across leading tech companies. He has held senior engineering and research roles at Facebook, Instacart, and now Google, blending deep technical rigor with product-minded execution. His background in computational mathematics and early research positions at Microsoft Research Asia and IBM Research inform a specialty in graph drawing and information visualization that surfaces in practical large-scale applications. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys life and programming equally, bringing curiosity and a collaborative mindset to complex engineering challenges. Often operating at the intersection of research and production, he translates novel algorithms into robust, scalable services used in consumer and enterprise contexts. Based in Fremont, California, he combines academic depth with decade-long industry impact to solve hard visualization and ML problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computational Mathematics, Master Computational Mathematics at Nankai University
Github Skills (89)
transformers10
language-model10
approximate10
python10
deep-learning10
ai10
transformer10
gpt10
nlp10
jax10
artificial-intelligence10
llama10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
cuda10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mpcflow/mpcflow
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
A multi-party computation (MPC) library for production
Contributions:16 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 19 days
computationmpcpartycluster-computingmulti-party-computation
llamaherder/llamaherder
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 25 days
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