Shen Li
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShen Li is a Principal Engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience building highly scalable, secure cloud storage and distributed compute systems at AWS. He leads architecture, implementation, and operations for enterprise-grade S3 solutions, driving decisions that improve durability, performance, and cost efficiency while mentoring senior engineers. Comfortable working across product, research, and engineering teams, he translates customer-facing requirements into coherent technical strategy and long-term platform innovation. His background spans end-to-end systems development from early web and QA roles to mission-critical real-time compute services, reflecting a pragmatic balance of hands-on engineering and organizational leadership. Notably, he pairs deep systems expertise with a track record of shaping career growth for senior technical talent.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor's degree Information Security, Bachelor's degree Information Security at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
elevenlee/WebSearchEngine
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 16 days
elevenlee/dcn_streaming_video
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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