Tianjing Li
Senior Software Engineer at Saris AI
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolTianjing Li is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend systems, moderation pipelines, and full-stack features for large-scale consumer and enterprise products. Based in Montreal, she has led engineering efforts at startups and service teams, driving agentic fintech workflows at Saris AI and contributing to Cohere's open-source toolkit while previously shaping Trust & Safety infrastructure at Yik Yak and Sidechat. Her technical strengths center on Python, scalable APIs, Elasticsearch, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), with a track record of automating content detection that handled the majority of takedowns and slashed indexing times. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, she pairs clear communication and scope discipline with hands-on implementation and stakeholder collaboration. A curious problem-solver, she steadily seeks challenging work and continuous learning—and is also a cat and snake dad, hinting at patience and an affinity for careful stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Physical Sciences, Associate of Science - AS Physical Sciences at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at McGill University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (55)
linear-regression10
meilisearch9
opensearch-dashboards9
machine-learning-algorithms9
regression9
application9
data-structures8
wrapper8
fine-tuning8
llm8
atlassian8
commons8
opensearch8
jaspersoft-studio7
dashboard7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cohere-ai/quick-start-connectors
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:82 reviews, 29 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 months
cohere-ai/cohere-toolkit
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Cohere Toolkit is a collection of prebuilt components enabling users to quickly build and deploy RAG applications.
Contributions:9 releases, 370 reviews, 320 PRs in 10 months
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