Xiang Li
Engineering Manager at SmartEquip
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolXiang Li is a technology leader with 11 years of full-stack engineering experience, now serving as Director of Technology at First Stop Health after progressing through senior and lead engineering roles there. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python (Django, Flask), Java (Spring), C/C++, and modern web stacks (React/Angular) paired with production experience across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and Neo4j. Xiang has a track record of turning research into production—building recommendation and predictive analytics apps at Northwestern that combined network heuristics with Django front-ends. He’s also delivered automation and testing platforms at Motorola and operationalized integrations and data servers for university research, demonstrating an uncommon blend of QA/CI tooling and backend architecture. Comfortable in Linux-heavy environments and fluent with Jenkins, Selenium and Git, he excels at bridging research, product, and ops to ship reliable, data-driven services.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Wuhan UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
ChineseGithub contributions (5)
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