Tommy Li
Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolTommy Li is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance user-facing systems and search infrastructure for billions of users. Currently at Dropbox, he focuses on enterprise search, Elasticsearch infrastructure, and Retrieval Augmented Generation, after a decade at Google where he led design and code review for Chrome Search & History and helped implement RAG for browsing history. His work spans front-end UIs to backend retrieval systems, and he holds a patent (US11783003B2) and an inventive edge—having conceived a method to pause Adobe Flash Player. With prior experience upgrading mission-critical C++ audio systems for Lockheed Martin deployed to operational theaters and an MS from Stanford, he blends systems-level rigor with product-focused delivery. Based in Santa Monica, he brings rare cross-domain fluency in search, retrieval, and large-scale production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesM.S Management Science & Engineering, M.S Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yeahpython/bees-bees-bees
Feb 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:13 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 4 months
yeahpython/yeahpython.github.io
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 49 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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