Nathan Li
Senior Data Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNathan Li is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms across telecom and cloud environments. With dual strengths in commerce and computer science from Queen’s University, he blends business acumen with deep hands-on expertise in Spark, Kafka, AWS (EMR, Lambda, S3, Athena), Terraform/CDK and multiple data stores (Postgres, Druid, ScyllaDB, Aerospike). He has progressed from BI and campaign development to leading data engineering initiatives at Bell and Sabio, delivering cost-optimized, production-grade pipelines and infrastructure-as-code. Nathan’s background in project management and finance-enabled analytics lends him a pragmatic approach to ROI-driven data solutions—he’s secured multi-million-dollar funding and operational savings in prior roles. Based in Old Toronto, he’s quietly aiming to channel his technical and commercial skillset into biotech, bringing a rare mix of domain curiosity and production reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange, Exchange at The University of QueenslandBachelor of Commerce (Honours) First Class & Bachelor of Arts General in Computing with Distinction, Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) First Class & Bachelor of Arts General in Computing with Distinction at Queen's University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
3reputation
336reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (63)
windows10
office36510
keyboard10
mouse10
powertoys10
command-palette10
onedrive9
linux9
network9
synergy9
microsoft8
google-play7
apache-kafka6
avsc6
scala6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nathannli/Watson_Visual_Recognition_GroceryWebApp
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
nathannli/mypersonalfinance
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:23 PRs, 87 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 3 months
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