Summary
Patrick Li is a versatile software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building full-stack products, mobile apps, and speech foundation models. Currently a Member of Technical Staff on xAI's Audio/Reasoning team, he previously helped develop speech models at Ultravox.ai and shipped backend systems and internal tools at MongoDB. As founder and CEO of Dali Labs he grew consumer mobile products to over 100,000 users, blending product intuition, UI/UX design, and hands-on development. His research background in bioinformatics produced peer-reviewed work on EHR analytics and decentralized prescription tracking, reflecting a knack for turning academic ideas into practical systems. Trained in Penn’s Jerome Fisher M&T program, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with rigorous engineering and occasional public-speaking experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Economics, Bachelor of Science, Economics at The Wharton School
Wharton + School of Engineering, Wharton + School of Engineering at Jerome Fisher M&T Program
Saratoga High School
Computer Science (Bachelors + Masters), Computer Science (Bachelors + Masters) at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese