Summary
Matthew Li is a software engineer specializing in scientific data systems and high-performance computing, with 11 years of experience and seven years focused on designing, deploying, and optimizing services at Berkeley Lab. He has led development of production web portals and REST APIs for supercluster account management, cutting tooling response times by 90% and enabling replication of services across multiple research clusters. His work spans backend engineering, frontend improvements, DevOps automation, and data pipeline optimization—rewriting archiving tools to reduce runtimes from days to hours and trimming page load times by over 40%. Comfortable presenting technical work to large audiences and authoring papers, he blends hands-on systems work with product-minded improvements that scale for researchers. Based in San Francisco with a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, he brings rare experience shipping reliable infrastructure for scientific computing at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Westmoor High School