Richard Li
Product Manger at Persona
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Li is a product leader with 13 years of experience building applied AI and cloud products, currently shaping AI trust and safety capabilities at Persona after leading PM teams at Hive. He has a track record of shipping high-impact services for content moderation, media understanding, and ML data annotation that help large enterprises operationalize AI responsibly. Earlier roles at LocusLabs and Microsoft blend mobile, AR, and cloud media systems—ranging from AR navigation featured on Apple.com to Azure video AI services used for large-scale broadcast events. Richard pairs technical roots (early SDE internships at Amazon and Research In Motion) with product leadership, translating complex ML and platform requirements into usable, scalable features. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for connecting deep technical constraints to practical product outcomes and for bringing trust-and-safety considerations into the core of AI product design.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
azure10
swagger10
api10
rest10
openapi10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
rest-api9
architecture7
documentation5
ids3
react2
visualize2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Lichard/Leap-Theremin
Feb 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years
microsoft/azure-media-redactor-visualizer
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 21 days
reactredactvisualizeidsphase
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