Mao Li
Senior Data Engineer
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMao Li is a Senior Data Engineer based in Stevenage with nearly a decade of experience building production-grade data platforms and recommender systems across companies like Roku and Huawei. He combines a PhD in Artificial Intelligence with hands-on expertise in ETL, data warehousing, large-scale recall/ranking pipelines, and feature engineering for ads and video recommendation. His background spans demand forecasting and logistics modeling at THG to data governance and mentoring at Ping An, giving him a strong blend of research rigor and operational delivery. Mao’s GitHub focus on reinforcement and imitation learning hints at a deeper interest in learning-from-demonstration techniques that inform his approach to personalization and ranking. Known for optimizing pipelines at scale—caching features in Redis and managing millions-item recalls—he thrives on turning complex ML research into reliable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at University of YorkMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Chinese, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
mannerslee/MachineLearningPythonStudy
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
mannerslee/RL-with-demo-CTgame-grid-world
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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