Richard Li
DevOps Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Li is a DevOps engineer based in San Jose with over 18 years in software development and 12 years focused on release engineering, specializing in mobile build, automation testing, and CI/CD pipelines. He has built and scaled build systems and infrastructure for Android and iOS across enterprises like Apple, Groupon, Barnes & Noble and HP, often reducing build and automation times dramatically through tooling, Docker, Ansible and CI optimizations. Richard designs resilient, high-throughput build farms and artifact storage solutions, and has implemented creative models like two-phase and on-demand builds to cut turnaround times and increase parallelism. He pairs deep hands-on scripting and systems work (Bash, Python, Git/Gerrit, Jenkins) with architecture-level thinking to improve stability and developer productivity. Notably, he has integrated security-sensitive systems such as Widevine DRM KeyBox and re-engineered repo sync and caching to shrink repo clones from 30+ minutes to around 4 minutes. With a Master’s in Software Engineering and a background that began in embedded and telecom software, he brings both low-level systems understanding and large-scale release engineering expertise.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at International Technological UniversityBachelor, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Bachelor, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (151)
react-native-ios10
camera10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
uwp10
social-share10
react10
app-framework9
automator9
mobile-development9
face-detection9
scanning9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dockerbase/devbase-hadoop
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
lifuzu/lifuzu.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 11 months
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