Rocky Li
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Herndon, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRocky Li is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems at AWS, currently contributing to the open-source Amazon SSM Agent. He has deep hands-on experience across AWS services including Service Quotas and RAM, driving more granular quota controls and flexible resource-sharing policies. Rocky blends a strong engineering foundation from Duke (M.Eng.) and safety-focused training from Beijing Institute of Technology with practical industry experience at AT&T and global internships. He is comfortable shipping production systems, creating automated workflows and APIs, and publishing simulation and survey tools from his graduate research. Outside code, he’s an avid skier and paddleboarder—bringing the same methodical, risk-aware mindset from outdoor pursuits and safety engineering into complex software problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Mechanical Engineering at Duke UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Safety Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Safety Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (33)
remote-management10
vms10
pandas9
python9
aws9
multithreading8
agent8
terraform8
cli7
pip6
python-bindings6
dictionary6
command-line6
python-multithreading6
beautifulsoup6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Aperocky/cellular-automata
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
Aperocky/hydro-sim
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Build a random terrain with water and lakes and evaporating seas in term based simulation.
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 29 days
seassimulation-frameworksimulationlakessimulation-based
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