Summary
Wenxi Li is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems and delivering data-driven insights across finance, automotive, retail, and aging-services at AARP. She combines deep NLP and sequence-model expertise—having rebuilt a large-scale Chinese lyrics generation system with GPT-2 and 300GB of training data—with hands-on ML engineering that reduced inference time by two thirds and markedly improved fluency. At BLEND360 she translated complex analytics into actionable business strategy, automated data pipelines between Snowflake and S3, and doubled reporting productivity. Her background in industrial engineering and logistics (UC Berkeley, Tongji) informs a pragmatic approach to modeling, optimization, and supply-chain problems. Comfortable moving models from research to production, she has repeatedly partnered with stakeholders to simplify solutions to the right level of complexity for business impact. Based in Washington, D.C., she brings a mix of research-grade modeling, production automation, and user-focused translation to cross-functional teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Master of Engineering - MEng, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Transportation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Transportation Engineering at Berkeley Global
Bachelor of Science - BS, Logistics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Logistics Engineering at Tongji University
Chinese, English, Chinese, German, French