Xiang Li
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiang Li is a software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native backend systems, currently contributing at AWS in Bellevue. He combines a strong academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science, 4.0 GPA) with hands-on production work across telecom and insurance platforms, implementing microservices, messaging, and scalable AWS architectures. His open-source contributions to the AWS EBS CSI driver include end-to-end snapshot testing, volume metrics, and refactoring in-flight requests to improve robustness and idempotency—work that directly strengthens storage reliability for Kubernetes on AWS. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and a collaborative team player, Xiang brings pragmatic engineering, DevOps fluency, and a track record of improving reliability in distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Software Engineering, 3.1/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Software Engineering, 3.1/4.0 at South China University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
container-storage-interface10
go10
aws10
csi10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
metric8
devops8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 83 reviews, 52 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Xiang primarily contributed to adding and implementing end-to-end tests for EBS CSI driver's volume snapshot functionality, which involved creating and deleting snapshots and snapshot contents. The user also implemented functionality to gather volume metrics and node capabilities. Furthermore, the user worked on refactoring in-flight requests, which enhanced the robustness and idempotency of various volume operations within the driver.
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AndyXiangLi/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Contributions:301 pushes, 43 branches in 8 months
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