Summary
Tony Li is a software engineer and Member of Technical Staff currently at xAI, with three years of hands-on experience building infrastructure and developer-facing tooling. He’s worked as an SDE intern on Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon team in Toronto focusing on logs and metrics, and contributed to the Protobuf ecosystem at Buf by working on protocompile, protoc-gen-validate, and protovalidate. A third-year Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo, Tony has also been a founding engineer at Deasie, giving him early-stage product and ownership experience. He blends production systems experience with open-source contributions, and is comfortable shipping both backend instrumentation and developer tools. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a practical, metrics-driven approach to reliability and developer productivity that belies his student status.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
St. John's-Ravenscourt School
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo