Summary
Xiang Li is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building AI-driven product experiences that sit at the intersection of large language models, multimodal vision, and thoughtful design. Currently focused on commerce agents at Google after leading multimodal, LLM-powered search and generative image features at Coupang, he blends deep model-serving engineering (Triton, vllm, TensorRT, ONNX) with product-minded UX sensibilities. Previously at Retool he architected a sweeping source-control overhaul that dramatically improved stability and deployment velocity, and at Google Discover he applied BERT/MUM to boost recommendation relevance. Based in San Francisco, he also scouts for early-stage opportunities with UpHonest Capital, signaling an eye for product-market potential beyond engineering. Collected across roles, his uncommon strength is translating cutting-edge ML capabilities into scalable, user-centric experiences that measurably move business metrics.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate, Stanford LEAD Professional Certificate at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science (BS) optical engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) optical engineering at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese