Tong Li
Senior Backend Engineer at HIVED
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTong Li is a Senior Backend Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building scalable systems, currently driving backend work at HIVED after a multi-role tenure at ByteDance where he led a BFF migration from Python to Go and managed TikTok’s ad creation and recommendation platform services. He combines strong backend expertise with hands-on contributions to front-end open-source projects like UmiJS plugins and Alibaba’s ahooks—working on state/model plugins and data-fetching hooks that improve runtime behavior and developer ergonomics. Known for mentoring junior engineers into mid-senior roles, he balances shipping production-critical features and incident response with thoughtful code quality and testing improvements. A Peking University CS graduate, Tong brings a rare full-stack perspective informed by deep experience in high-throughput, real-time systems and developer-facing tooling.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Technology at Peking University
Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
umijs10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react-hooks10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
jtest8
jes8
axios8
jestjs8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
umijs/plugins
Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
🍣 The one-stop shop for official Umi plugins and presets.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 51 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tong primarily contributed to the UmiJS plugins repository, focusing on enhancing the initial-state and model functionalities. Their work involved migrating plugins, fixing export problems, and modifying runtime configurations. The user also addressed issues related to UI and component rendering within the plugin system, including adding features related to qiankun and useModel hooks.
presetsshopstopumi
alibaba/hooks
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
A high-quality & reliable React Hooks library. https://ahooks.pages.dev/
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 11 reviews, 179 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tong primarily contributed to the `useAPI` React Hook library, adding new features like `useAPI` for fetching data, fixing callback dependencies, and improving status checks. They implemented documentation and testing for the `useAPI` and `useAsync` hooks, with further efforts towards integrating the `useAsync` hook into the overall library. Their work also included code refactoring and improvements to the error handling.
reactreact-hooksumi-hooksreliablehigh-quality
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