Steven Li
Co-Founder, CTO at IPFS-Force
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Li is a seasoned technology executive and founder based in Singapore, blending more than two decades of strategic leadership with 11 years of focused hands-on engineering and product delivery. As Co-Founder and CTO of Novalink and long-time CTO and community leader at IPFS-Force, he specializes in distributed storage, cloud video, and decentralized systems. He led cloud distributed storage efforts for Cisco in China and previously managed systems engineering at Sycamore, consistently moving complex infrastructure from research to production. An active contributor to the Filecoin Lotus codebase, he’s made core backend improvements around consensus and storage power validation—work that touches a high-profile project in the web3 storage stack. Steven pairs technical depth in Go and distributed consensus with a pragmatic founder’s mindset, able to translate protocol-level contributions into customer-facing services. His ongoing Executive MBA candidacy at NUS signals a continued investment in strategic and business leadership alongside his technical career.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Bachelor at National University of Defense TechnologyExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at NUS Business SchoolNanchong High SchoolMS, MS at Zhejiang UniversityMS, MS at 56th Institute of General Staff HQs, People's Liberation Army
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
go10
filecoin10
blockchain10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
ipfs8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
filecoin-project/lotus
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Reference implementation of the Filecoin protocol, written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the Filecoin project's backend, focusing on core functionality related to consensus and storage power calculations. They refactored and improved the `PowerCmp` function, crucial for validating miner power. Additionally, the user updated codebase constants and modified weight calculation logic. They also made minor code changes in multiple files including `chain/types/blockheader.go`, `build/params.go`, and `chain/store/weight.go`.
golangipfsfilecoinblockchainfilecoin-protocol
steven004/TestSteps
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 56 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 5 months
pythonpy-liketestingpython-moduleautolog
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