Shunyang Li
Senior Software Engineer at Tongyi Lab
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolShunyang Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with eight years of experience bridging research-grade systems and production software. Currently at Tongyi Lab after a brief impactful stint at Alibaba where he helped build a next-generation BI system combining graph algorithms, sampling, and LLM-driven optimization for real-time analytics. He holds a PhD (in progress) and MPhil from UNSW and has taught big data and database courses, reflecting strong foundations in scalable data systems. Comfortable across multiple programming languages, he blends academic rigour with hands-on engineering and maintains a personal technical portfolio at shunyangli.github.io. A not-obvious strength is his experience translating research ideas into deployable analytics features that serve large-scale datasets and real-time decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
UNSW Sydney
Chinese
Stackoverflow
21reputation
67reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (122)
graph-algorithms10
python10
network-analysis10
graph-visualization10
complex-networks10
computer-science10
graph-theory10
science10
graph-analysis10
ranking10
react10
api-template9
flask-api8
dos8
django7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
unswdb/unswdb.github.io
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 PRs, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
ShunyangLi/API-Template
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Flask API template
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apitemplatepythonflask-apijinja2
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