Linca Li
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolLinca Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cupertino with seven years of focused experience and a broader 15+ year engineering career spanning embedded firmware to full-stack web development. Currently at Apple after a long tenure at Amazon-Lab126, she brings deep practical skills in building reliable, production-grade systems and shipping user-facing features. An active open-source contributor, she has made targeted improvements to Discourse—ranging from UI polish like accurate poll vote counts and time displays to backend logging and emoji creator support—showing attention to UX and observability. Her background combines rigorous CS training from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University at Buffalo with hands-on work across flight entertainment, device engineering, and consumer software. Colleagues would describe her as a detail-oriented engineer who systematically closes the loop between front-end behavior and backend correctness.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University at BuffaloMS, BS, Computer Science, MS, BS, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
javascript10
ember10
forum10
ruby10
postgresql8
api-design7
css6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 58 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Linca contributed to various aspects of the Discourse platform. They implemented features related to user interface elements, such as showing the absolute number of votes in polls and ensuring the correct display of time formats in embedded comments. Additionally, they focused on enhancing the table builder, addressing issues like alignment preservation and escaping special characters. They also worked on backend improvements by adding creator and logging for CustomEmoji and logging topic slow mode changes.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
Lhcfl/Linquebot
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
开箱即用的多平台群聊机器人
Contributions:2 releases, 151 commits, 19 PRs in 1 month
botqqbot
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.