Nong Li
Software Engineer at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNong Li is a software engineer and seasoned technical leader with a decade of experience building high-performance distributed data systems, from core engine work on Impala and Spark SQL to co-founding and serving as CTO of Okera. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems expertise with product-facing leadership, focusing on performance, execution engines, and data access control at scale. His career includes impactful stints at Microsoft, Cloudera, Databricks, and a return to Databricks, showing a pattern of tackling the hardest parts of data platform stacks. Known among peers as a CS/IE enthusiast, he pairs rigorous academic roots from Brown with an engineer’s curiosity that drives both low-level optimization and startup building.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Newton North High SchoolScB Computer Science, ScB Computer Science at Brown University
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Github Skills (5)
api3
python3
python-client3
client-library3
ipfs2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Yuki23329626/pi_parking_monitor
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:160 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
AquariumHub/android_app
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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