Shu Li
Chief Storage Scientist, Senior Director at Alibaba Group
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShu Li is a Chief Storage Scientist and Senior Director with nine years in cloud infrastructure leadership and over a decade of deep systems engineering across hyperscale storage, compute-storage convergence, and hardware–software co-design. As the first US employee and founding member of Alibaba's US infrastructure team, he built labs and led R&D, deployment, and operations for storage engines, custom media and controllers, and storage fabrics that power Alibaba’s e-commerce, cloud, payments, and logistics businesses. His expertise spans SSD/DRAM/SCM modules, NAND/DRAM/PCM research, NVMe-over-Fabric and near-data computing, plus IC and storage server design for offload and hyperconvergence. Prior roles at Avago and Marvell sharpened his background in signal processing, communication algorithms, and high-speed low-power hardware architecture. Based in California and grounded in a PhD from Rensselaer and degrees from Tsinghua, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic TCO-focused infrastructure engineering. Notably, he pairs backend/frontend coding experience with hardware innovation, enabling end-to-end solutions from controller silicon to distributed storage services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteM.S. Electrical Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (13)
ui-elements6
vue5
armv63
mobile3
armhf3
ipmi3
armv82
mobile-ui2
v2ray2
chroot2
macos2
bare-metal2
arm2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shushillyA/dota2web
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 branch in 1 day
shushillyA/create-vue
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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