Roy Li
Software Engineer at Databricks
Canada
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Top SchoolRoy Li is a software engineer based in Canada with a decade of hands-on experience building infrastructure and platform services across startups and major cloud companies. Currently at Databricks working on infra, he previously shipped native apps and platform features during internships at Snowflake, FreshBooks, and others, showing a strong breadth from low-level systems to user-facing integrations. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, Roy blends rigorous academic foundations with practical mentorship experience as a former teaching assistant and instructor in STEM subjects. He has a pattern of short, focused internships that accelerated his exposure to production systems, reliability, and developer tooling. Known on GitHub by the motto "ad astra!", he brings ambition and curiosity to scalable engineering challenges. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping long-term maintainability in view.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityDiploma Programme, STEM, Diploma Programme, STEM at International BaccalaureateBachelor of Computer Science - BCS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science - BCS, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (116)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
KyeNormanGill/discord-notifications
Aug 2017 - Aug 2023
This is a discord/uws project for notfications!
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years
discord
RuyiLi/discordjson
May 2017 - Feb 2019
A discord.js framework. WARNING: CANCER
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
discord-js
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