Michael Li
Principal Engineer at Broadcom Inc.
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Li is a Principal Engineer based in San Jose with over two decades of hands-on experience designing realtime, mission-critical embedded systems across industrial, automotive, medical, military, networking, and consumer markets. He blends deep low-level expertise—from 8-bit microcontrollers and BSP/driver work to multicore RTOS and Unix/Linux platforms—with practical leadership, having guided small teams and directed cross-functional engineering efforts. At Broadcom and previously Brocade, he focused on board bring-up, traffic management chipsets, shaping, scheduling, and HQoS features that keep high-availability networks predictable under load. Known for insisting on robust and elegant software, he thrives under tight deadlines and complex hardware constraints. A pragmatic architect and mentor, he has a track record of turning product requirements into resilient firmware and system software that win design commitments from Tier‑1 customers.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (11)
armv610
abstraction10
virtual-network10
sonic10
switch10
networking9
sdn9
binary-image8
broadcom3
sdk2
azure2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
michaelli10/SONiC
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Landing page for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) - http://azure.github.io/SONiC/
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
networkingsonicazure
michaelli10/sonic-buildimage
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
installablesonicbinary-imageimage-build
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