Tong Li
CFO Circle Member at The Circle by Founders Circle Capital
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTong Li is a finance and operations executive with 13+ years of experience building scalable financial systems for startups, scale-ups, multinationals and joint ventures, currently serving as a CFO Circle member and founding member of The F Suite. He has led fundraising, FP&A, compliance and operational transformations across healthcare, eCommerce, supply chain, SaaS and PE/VC, most recently as VP Finance at MedArrive. Tong pairs strategic finance with hands-on operational execution—establishing reporting, controls and KPIs that preserve startup velocity while enabling growth. He combines formal training in digital transformation from Columbia Business School with practical technical chops evidenced by open-source contributions to projects like Istio and OpenStack, reflecting a comfort with automation and DevOps-driven reliability. Fluent in English and Mandarin, he brings cross-border experience managing JV structures and investor relations for $100M+ portfolio businesses.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance and Financial Management Services, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance and Financial Management Services at Pace University - Lubin School of BusinessExecutive Leadership Education, Digital Transformation, Executive Leadership Education, Digital Transformation at Columbia Business SchoolBachelor's degree, Journalism, Bachelor's degree, Journalism at Renmin University of China
Github Skills (36)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
python10
scripting10
ioctl10
io10
openstack-swift10
metering10
script10
go10
openstack10
service-design10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
istio10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-labs/minifabric
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
Do fabric network the right and easy way.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 releases, 100 reviews, 749 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tong's contributions primarily focused on improving the functionality and operability of the `minifabric` project. They implemented enhanced error handling within the shell scripts, added support for setting up CA nodes, and fixed various issues related to channel creation and base64 encoding. Furthermore, the user containerized the project and improved the project's output display, which indicates a focus on automation and ease of use.
fabricmcminecraftfabricfabric-network
openstack/ceilometer
Apr 2013 - Mar 2016
OpenStack Telemetry (Ceilometer)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tong primarily contributed to extending the Swift middleware within the Ceilometer project to collect the number of requests against Swift, adding a new metric for `storage.api.request`. They modified testing code to validate the new metric by creating new tests for GET, PUT, POST and HEAD requests to swift. Additionally, the user modified the configuration documentation, fixing parameter names and linking to a sample configuration file. Furthermore, the user implemented a file-based publisher for the Ceilometer, allowing metering data to be written to a file.
telemetryopenstackopentelemetry
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