Wei Li
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Various Companies
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWei Li is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 8 years of industry experience building large-scale ML and GenAI systems to grow user engagement, currently focused on agent architectures at Google. He has driven search, personalization, and LLM-powered features for New Bing and led cross-functional teams to deliver video platforms, recommendation, and camera experiences. An early core developer and now Emeritus of scikit-learn, he blends deep academic grounding (Tsinghua and CUHK) with pragmatic product delivery across Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and startups. Wei advises early-stage companies on recommender systems, computer vision, and generative AI, bringing both research rigor and production know-how. He’s a competitive Kaggle practitioner with a track record in multimodal problems, which informs his applied ML intuition beyond typical engineering leadership. Colleagues rely on him for technically bold solutions that bridge models, infrastructure, and user-facing impact.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese, GermanGithub contributions (5)
weil0819/COMP9315
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
weil0819/Kaggle
May 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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