William Li
Software Engineer at Figma
California, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Li is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable, mission-critical systems across startups and large tech companies. Currently at Figma after its acquisition of effx where he was a founding engineer, he focuses on cloud-native infrastructure, reliability, and developer-facing tooling. His background spans SRE and backend roles at Airbnb and product-focused engineering at Banjo, with deep hands-on experience in Ruby/Rails, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, and distributed systems like Kafka and Elasticsearch. He has a taste for sustainable engineering practices and automation, and is unusually fluent in both chef/ops tooling and modern cloud primitives. Trained in engineering and even culinary arts, he brings a pragmatic, iterative approach to hard problems and a genuine enthusiasm for Ruby. Based in California, he thrives at the intersection of reliability, developer experience, and scalable architecture.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of California, DavisCulinary Arts/Chef Training, Culinary Arts/Chef Training at City College of San FranciscoApp Academy
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
git10
search-engine10
libgit210
javascript10
electron10
windows10
linux10
java10
restful10
rest10
elasticsearch10
js10
nodejs10
macos10
nodegit10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
effxhq/effx-cli
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
effx cli tool for use with the effx platform
Contributions:2 releases, 22 reviews, 50 commits in 4 months
cli
weeyum/optica
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 24 pushes, 9 branches in 8 months
devopsinfrastructurenodesawsterraform
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