Valerie Li
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolValerie Li is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale systems across ads, payments, and simulation domains in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has contributed to high-throughput ML infrastructure and model training at Facebook, helped build payment and financial platforms including Novi, and now works on simulation at Waymo. Her background blends strong academic foundations in mathematics (Peking University) and computer science (NYU, 3.98 GPA) with hands-on production engineering across consumer and safety-critical products. Known for turning complex algorithmic and systems challenges into reliable services, she also has experience teaching and grading advanced algorithms and parallel computing. Colleagues describe her as quietly effective—focused on shipping robust systems that make everyday products safer and more useful.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.98/4.00, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.98/4.00 at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, 3.54/4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, 3.54/4.00 at Peking University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (4)
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mpv5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liyouvane/Leetcode-Solutions-C
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
liyouvane/liyouvane.github.io
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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