Vivian Li
Developer at Substantial
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVivian Li is a Developer based in Seattle with a decade of software engineering experience across consumer and device-focused teams. She shipped firmware and MCU work on the Surface team before moving into developer-facing products at Microsoft MakeCode, and now builds at Substantial where she continues to bridge low-level systems thinking with higher-level developer tooling. Her GitHub activity includes commits made on behalf of the Library of Congress as a 2025 Innovator in Residence, signaling engagement with public-interest digital projects beyond typical corporate work. A CS graduate of UIUC, she also has experience teaching programming to young learners and creating educational coding projects, reflecting a knack for clear technical communication and mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (33)
editors10
minecraft10
javascript10
adafruit10
microsoft10
typescript10
sparkfun10
editor10
ace-editor10
makecode10
code-editor10
experiment10
blockly10
bit10
arcade10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
livcheerful/anywhereadventures
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:26 PRs, 86 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
livcheerful/allmaps
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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