Ran Li
Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents) at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRan Li is an AI builder and engineering leader with nine years of experience turning research-grade ideas into production-grade, enterprise-scale systems. He co-founded and led development of Google’s Agent Engine (now Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform), a full-lifecycle platform for deploying, evaluating, and governing intelligent agents across large organizations. His background spans generative AI and foundation models, search and recommendation at global scale, and robust cloud infrastructure—from real-time payments data pipelines to managed runtimes and observability. Promoted three times at Google while completing an MSCS at Stanford, he combines product instincts with hands-on systems engineering to take zero-to-one projects to scale. He’s authored Google’s 40-page whitepaper "AI Agents: Prototype to Production" and is comfortable navigating ambiguity where research, compliance, and enterprise trust intersect. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he thrives on shipping pragmatic, creative solutions that bridge vision and execution.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Geophysics, Bachelor's degree Geophysics at Peking UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zijiany2/PoetryGenerator
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:19 commits in 2 months
ryannli/ryannli.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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