Xiaodong Li
Principal Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaodong Li is a Principal Software Engineer in Redmond with seven years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NC State, bringing deep technical rigor from semiconductor research into software engineering. He has progressed through roles at Synopsys, Mentor Graphics/Siemens, AWS, TuSimple, and now NVIDIA, focusing on reliable, production-grade systems and CI/CD robustness. As a DevOps contributor to Intel's oneDPL, he improved cross-platform Jenkins pipelines, test resilience, and compiler/environment reproducibility—signals of an engineer who strengthens developer velocity by hardening infrastructure. Comfortable at the intersection of low-level engineering and cloud-scale software, he combines academic depth in nanoelectronics with practical expertise in build systems and automated testing. Colleagues rely on him to reduce flakiness and make complex toolchains more maintainable and deterministic.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Eningeering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Computer Eningeering at North Carolina State UniversityBS Microelectronics, BS Microelectronics at Peking University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
sh10
jenkins10
script10
jenkins-ci10
shell10
scripting10
cicd10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
bash9
oneapi9
cmake7
c-language6
cprogramming-language6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uxlfoundation/oneDPL
Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
oneAPI DPC++ Library (oneDPL) https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/oneapi/components/dpc-library.html
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Xiaodong primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the CI/CD pipelines for the oneDPL project. Their commits involved updating Jenkinsfiles across multiple operating systems (Windows, RHEL, UB18, UB20), incorporating features such as merging base branch commits and updating environment configurations. They added retry/try-catch protection for tests and modified scripts to improve build processes, with a focus on compiler version control and inclusion of external packages. The user's changes aimed to improve the robustness and reliability of the build and testing infrastructure.
oneapi-dpcdpconeapiintelus-en
DoyleLi/SYCLomatic-test
May 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
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