Tom Li
Principal Engineer at Chaos Theory
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Li is a Principal Engineer and founder with 13 years of documented experience and over 30 years of hands-on programming roots dating back to 1990, who has shipped consumer- and enterprise-facing products used by millions worldwide. He blends deep systems and cross-platform expertise—from low-level C/C++ and device drivers to Objective-C, cloud services, and modern client apps—and has been an early engineer and core maintainer of key privacy infrastructure such as ExpressVPN’s Lightway protocol. Comfortable leading small startups and large product teams alike, he connects technical, design, and business perspectives to turn ambiguous problems into elegant, usable solutions. Based in Hong Kong, he also runs Inspirify, a consultancy for scalable product and cloud builds, and currently focuses on strategic engineering and problem-solving at Chaos Theory. A pragmatic innovator, Tom’s uncommon strength is synthesizing knowledge across domains to tackle hard architectural challenges while keeping user experience front and center.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. Multimedia and Entertainment Technology, MSc. Multimedia and Entertainment Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityBSc. Electronic and Information Technology, BSc. Electronic and Information Technology at Nankai University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (11)
chameleon3
swiftui3
ipados3
user-interface3
maccatalyst2
swift2
uikit2
macos2
ios2
appkit2
symfony1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
nklizhe/resume
Jul 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 10 months
nklizhe/NSBundle-LoginItem
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
A NSBundle category for adding / removing to LoginItems
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
symfonycategory
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