Mengyan Li
Senior Software Engineer at Tokenovate
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMengyan Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with 10 years’ experience building data-intensive, distributed systems in Java and cloud environments. She has led teams and end-to-end feature delivery across payments, real-time event processing, and analytics engines, driving reliability improvements like exactly-once processing, graceful cluster shutdowns, and automated testing. Her hands-on stack includes SpringBoot, MongoDB, Kafka and AWS, and she has shipped production payment flows with Checkout, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Comfortable balancing customer-facing incident response with engineering roadmaps, she’s worked directly with major banks and payment processors on high-stakes issues. With an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and a background in AI/ML, she brings both algorithmic thinking and pragmatic system design—she once boosted data migration throughput sevenfold through multithreaded batch writes within months of joining a team.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Artificial Intelligence & Automation, Bachelor of Science - BS Artificial Intelligence & Automation at Wuhan UniversityMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Washington University in St. LouisHigh School, High School at Tsinghua University High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
player8
django8
react8
python7
edtech5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SuperMonanana/ImageColorization
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:77 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
SuperMonanana/aimmo
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
A Massively Multi-player Online game, where players create Artificially Intelligent programs to play on their behalf.
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
playerplayersgameprogramsmulti-player
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