William Li
Solutions Architect at ALT-X Ventures
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Li is a solutions architect and founder with 13+ years building web and mobile products from Hong Kong, combining an engineering degree and e-business background from the University of Queensland. He transitioned from early web development for broadcasters and agencies to founding boutique studios (PiXLS / 19 Degrees) that helped startups and brands turn ideas into production applications. As a longtime hands-on engineer he has led technology teams as CTO and Managing Director while also working in customer-facing roles at Vercel and currently ALT-X Ventures, bridging product, infrastructure, and developer experience. He contributes to open-source front-end tooling—improving Draft.js plugins to better handle email links and code quality—which underscores his attention to UX details and maintainable code. An academic advisor in applied data science, he pairs practical product delivery with domain knowledge in data-driven decision making. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial technologist who moves smoothly between strategy, architecture, and shipping elegant web experiences.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of Business Management eBusiness, Bachelor of Business Management eBusiness at The University of QueenslandPadua College, Kedron
Chinese, English, php, javascript, html, java
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react10
draft-js9
draft-js-plugins9
sticker5
mention5
hashtag5
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
draft-js-plugins/draft-js-plugins
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
React Plugin Architecture for Draft.js including Slack-Like Emojis, FB-Like Mentions and Stickers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 21 days
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the draft-js-anchor-plugin, specifically adding support for email and mailto links. Their work involved modifying existing components and utility functions, including URLUtils and mailRegex, to validate and normalize email addresses. Furthermore, the user corrected several linting errors, including trailing spaces, and improper escape characters to maintain code quality. These modifications show that the user was focused on ensuring the plugin's functionality aligns with best practices.
reactplugin-architecturedraft-js-pluginshashtagsstickers
ALTxVentures/ngSweetAlert2
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
AngularJS wrapper for SweetAlert2
Contributions:3 releases, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years
speedometersweetalert2angularjsangularcropperjs
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