Summary
Melody Li is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building reliable media and platform systems, currently at Google after roles at TikTok and Snap where she focused on reliability, camera/video performance, playback/transcoding and media quality. A Waterloo CS graduate with a statistics minor and Dean’s Honours, she brings strong analytical instincts to performance-sensitive engineering problems. At Snap she improved video messaging quality and developed editing tools for iOS, and at TikTok she concentrated on reliability engineering at scale. Based in the New York City area, she combines mobile multimedia expertise with backend reliability work and maintains an active GitHub presence reflecting an interest in production-grade engineering. An unexpectedly candid detail: she once observed adding a LinkedIn summary coincided with fewer profile views, hinting at a pragmatic, data-minded perspective on personal branding.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, OSSD, 43/45, International Baccalaureate Diploma, OSSD, 43/45 at Glenforest Secondary School
Bachelor's degree, Dean’s Honours, Computer Science, Minor in Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Dean’s Honours, Computer Science, Minor in Statistics at University of Waterloo