Li Wang
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolLi Wang is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 11 years of experience designing and scaling high-volume distributed systems across LinkedIn and DoorDash. He combines deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science—with hands-on engineering, having led migrations off unstable legacy databases, deprecated legacy services, and architected scalable test sandboxes and cross-company programs. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes and large data stacks, he focuses on reliability, architectural trade-offs, and engineering productivity. Previously a CS professor and research assistant, he brings strong teaching and mentoring skills plus a background in security-oriented distributed-system research that surfaces in resilient designs. Known as a thoughtful, detail-oriented engineer and a "programmer and crafter" on GitHub, he blends production rigor with a craftsperson’s care for code quality.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Communication Engineering at Chongqing UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyGithub contributions (2)
sherls/GameEngine
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 15 days
sherls/TutorialHelper
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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