Side Li
Software Engineer at YouTube
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSide Li is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale data systems, machine learning frameworks, and analytics tooling across research and production at Google/YouTube and prior roles at Amazon and UC San Diego. He blends academic rigor—graduate research on systems for machine learning—with hands-on engineering shipping planet-scale video processing and multi/hybrid-cloud analytics services. Comfortable across the stack, he has applied his skills to ad systems, personalization, web ML infrastructure, and research data platforms. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs a practical "doer" mindset with a daydreamer’s curiosity, often bridging exploratory research and production-grade implementations.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Chinese, English
Github Skills (42)
reinforcement-learning9
parallel9
java9
python9
ranking9
optimization9
ray9
react8
computer-science8
science8
deep-learning8
hyperparameter-optimization8
machine-learning8
scaling8
large-language-models8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liside/SuAVE
Mar 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:242 commits, 2 PRs, 223 pushes in 1 year 3 months
approachpythonmanipulate-datadata-science
ADALabUCSD/MorpheusPy
Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Factorized Machine Learning with NumPy
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
numpypythonmachine-learningdata-science
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