Sam Li
Senior Director Of Engineering at Verily
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Li is a senior engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable web and browser technologies, now leading engineering at Verily in San Francisco. He rose through technical roles at Google—contributing to Chromium, Chrome DevTools and Polymer—before directing engineering teams focused on life sciences software. Sam combines hands-on full-stack development with strategic leadership, having improved open-source projects like Rendertron by enhancing stability, testing, and shadow DOM rendering. He is comfortable switching between low-level browser behavior and high-level product delivery, and is known for pragmatic infrastructure improvements such as custom Docker environments and performance tuning. With dual degrees in Software Engineering and Commerce from UNSW, he brings both technical rigor and business-minded prioritization to complex programs. Colleagues describe him as a builder who scales teams and systems without losing sight of developer experience and code quality.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (12)
puppeteer10
javascript10
web-components10
expressjs10
chrome10
render10
headless-browser10
chromeless10
rendering10
dockers9
docker9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChrome/rendertron
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
A Headless Chrome rendering solution
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:150 commits, 192 PRs, 240 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily worked on improving the Rendertron project, focusing on core functionality. They implemented a custom Docker environment, updated the rendering process by switching to Chrome Dev, and adjusted the buffer settings for efficiency. Significant changes include disabling browser caching, bumping the deadline for rendering, and updating the documentation with a focus on the project's stability. The user also added linting and testing features, including basic server tests, and integrated new features like support for shadow DOM rendering.
headlessreactprerenderpuppeteerwebcomponents
samuelli/progress-bar
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 releases, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
indeterminateprogress-bar
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