Oliver Li
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Li is a software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building reliable, high-performance systems across startups and large fintechs. He’s shipped critical backend and full-stack features at Stripe and Datadog, including major latency reductions, production gRPC migrations, and robust transaction-clearing tooling. As an early engineer at a seed-stage startup, he owned integrations with NetSuite and built a typed task queue with a dead-letter workflow and dashboard to accelerate development. His open-source contributions to Autolab show attention to both UX polish and backend schema/logic needed for autograding workflows — a blend of “professional code janitor” pragmatism and durable design. Having managed mission-critical infrastructure in the Singapore Army and moved quickly in high-pressure incident response, he pairs operational rigor with rapid execution. Based in New York, he brings a track record of shipping measurable improvements and reducing operational burden through tooling and automation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityGCE A Levels, GCE A Levels at Hwa Chong Institution
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (17)
ruby-rails10
annotations10
css10
fullstack-development10
rails10
full-stack10
auto-generate10
autograd10
annotate10
javascript9
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
autolab/Autolab
Sep 2019 - Nov 2021
Course management service that enables auto-graded programming assignments.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 96 commits, 98 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed significantly to the Autolab course management service, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work involved fixing UI issues related to annotation boxes, adding database schema changes (e.g., adding an `is_autograded` column), and modifying the application's logic to integrate with autograding functionality. They also implemented CSS improvements and worked on integrating code annotation features. The user's changes included reverting and re-implementing features, which demonstrates a collaborative and iterative development process.
course-managementpythonrailsteachingcmu
yicheng340/Econs-Forex-Game
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
A Forex trading game crafted to suit the needs of the Hwa Chong Junior College Economics Department.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
forexhearthstonemahjongsuittrading
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