Shi Lei
Engineering Manager Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolShi Lei is an engineering leader and staff software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience and over 15 years in the broader software/IT world, currently managing China intelligence and commercial product platforms at Airbnb. He combines full-stack development chops—evidenced by significant web console contributions to Bytedance’s FedLearner—with proven people leadership, having grown a finance group's tech team from a solo engineer to 30+ across product, dev, design and QA. His background spans startups and enterprise products (TuoTian, App Annie, ThoughtWorks, UFIDA), giving him a rare mix of rapid product delivery, platform automation, and risk-sensitive finance systems expertise. At Airbnb he oversees automation, command hub and mediation platforms, tying operational excellence to business-facing commercial features like pricing and promotions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who balances time-to-market with software quality and technical debt management. Based in Chaoyang District, Beijing, he brings both strategic ownership and day-to-day coding fluency to complex distributed and ML-adjacent systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Xi'an Jiaotong University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
back-end-development9
nextjs9
backend9
apidoc8
api8
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
dockers7
docker7
graphql6
ruby-on-rails6
asp-net6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bytedance/fedlearner
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
A multi-party collaborative machine learning framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 17 PRs, 8 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Shi primarily focused on developing and maintaining the web console for the `fedlearner` project. Their contributions involved implementing new job-related features, including job creation, deletion, and log viewing. They also modified existing components such as the Shell and JobCommonInfo to enhance functionality and improve the user interface. These changes suggest a significant involvement in both the frontend and backend aspects of the web console.
machine-learning
nervouself/webp-angle
May 2020 - Mar 2022
一个无依赖、稳定、美观、易用的 webp 生成器，可以解决你用其他工具生成的 webp 在各种平台下表现不一的问题。
Contributions:4 releases, 14 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
webp
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