Rick Li is a technical program leader with two decades of product and engineering experience and a track record of turning complex, high-stakes initiatives into scalable, revenue-driving products. He has led cross-functional teams at Meta, TikTok (driving a ~$1B ads portfolio), Ant Group, Amazon, and Microsoft, blending deep ML, big data and cloud expertise with sharp customer and business acumen. Equally comfortable shaping multi-year strategy and rolling up his sleeves to optimize ML infrastructure and online inference systems, he specializes in taking bespoke services to standardized, merchant-ready platforms. An MBA in Technology Management complements his ability to design and restructure engineering organizations, manage program budgets, and build PM/TPM teams that deliver under constrained resources. Based in Mercer Island, WA, Rick combines enterprise-scale delivery experience with hands-on familiarity in AI, Big Data and Cloud computing—an unusual mix that helps him align technical roadmaps to measurable business growth.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Technology Management MBA, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Technology Management MBA at UW Foster School of Business
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Northeastern University (CN)
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