Raymond Li is an AI-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-performance systems and orchestration platforms, currently running AI agent teams at Meta to speed up training and inference while reducing cost and environmental impact. He previously improved PyTorch compiler performance as a production engineer and has a track record of production-grade systems work across Meta, Tesla, AWS, and PlayStation. Raymond leads open-source efforts as Director of Open Source at CharaChorder, shipping the software-only CharaChorder Zero and a cross-platform typing analysis app. He founded a startup to bring small businesses online and has repeatedly delivered large developer productivity wins—e.g., a 70% build speedup at Tesla and cleaning 30k DynamoDB coordinator servers at AWS. An active open-source contributor, he has maintained enhancements to the widely used i3lock-color lockscreen, focusing on low-level input and build stability. A University of Waterloo BCS graduate who prefers Arch Linux, he blends systems-level C work with ML and distributed systems at scale.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
International Baccalaureate Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma, Ontario Secondary School Diploma at Bayview Secondary School
Diploma, Diploma at International Baccalaureate
Bachelor's of Computer Science (BCS) - Dean's Honours, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Computer Science (BCS) - Dean's Honours, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Contributions:11 releases, 36 commits, 34 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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