Maya Li
Staff Engineer at Imprint
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaya Li is a Staff Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building reliable, large-scale backend systems and platform infrastructure, currently focused on Go services for risk and fraud detection. She combines deep technical execution—writing production code and designing architecture—with hands-on leadership, having led teams and bridged product, data, and infrastructure across companies like Calm, Helix, and Amazon. Her background in biomedical informatics (PhD) and early work on health-focused platforms drives a persistent interest in applying software to improve health and wellness. Maya excels at pragmatic cross-functional collaboration, improving developer productivity, and shipping integrated B2B products and platform components. Colleagues rely on her adaptability: she moves easily between individual contributor work and managing teams to deliver scalable, secure systems. An under-the-radar strength is her pattern of turning research-level domain knowledge into production-ready services and reusable platform primitives.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical and Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomedical and Health Informatics at University of Washington
Chinese
Github Skills (30)
linux9
nodejs9
js8
macos8
windows8
javascript8
koajs7
rocket7
endpoint6
node-http6
testing4
expressjs4
fiddler4
api3
stripe3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
calm/http-graceful-shutdown
May 2021 - Aug 2022
Gracefully shuts down node http server - can be used with http, express, koa, ...
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
node-httpkoajsserviceworkernode-http-servergracefully
calm/contextlogger
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 19 pushes, 14 branches in 8 months
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