Xiaowei Li
Engineering Manager at ByteDance
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaowei Li is an Engineering Manager at ByteDance with a decade of experience building reliable, user-focused software and leading teams from hands-on engineering to delivery. He began as a software engineer and rose through roles at VMware before joining ByteDance, combining cloud and mobile expertise with product-minded leadership. An active Android open-source contributor, he’s known for UI/UX-forward work like the GracefulMovies app and the BubbleSeekBar component, where he optimized memory, added advanced interactions, and resolved platform-specific bugs. He holds a master’s from Carnegie Mellon and brings a pragmatic systems perspective—evident from earlier autoscaling and cloud pipeline work that handled millions of tasks—to bridge complex backend needs with polished client experiences.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of International Business and EconomicsMaster's degree, Master's degree at Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
custom-view10
user-interface10
ui-design10
android10
android-development10
java9
javas9
rxjavafx8
glidejs8
rxjava8
retrofit8
android-architecture-components7
databinding7
android-architecture7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
woxingxiao/GracefulMovies
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
简影讯，简约精彩影讯。基于Retrofit+RxJava+Android Arch+DataBinding+Room的高颜值影讯app。简约，优雅，精彩，即看即走，已正式发布上线。
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:63 commits, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
Contributions summary:Xiaowei primarily focused on enhancing the "Graceful Movies" Android application. Their contributions involved optimizing memory usage, adding UI elements and features like a search function, and refactoring the codebase. They also addressed reported bugs and improved the user interface by updating images and layouts to improve the application's visual appeal. These updates and changes suggest they are a key contributor to front-end improvements, and bug fixes, and a focus on overall user experience.
retrofitretrofit2viewmodelrxjavaroom
woxingxiao/BubbleSeekBar
Nov 2016 - Mar 2019
A beautiful Android custom seekbar, which has a bubble view with progress appearing upon when seeking. 自定义SeekBar，进度变化更以可视化气泡样式呈现
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:16 releases, 147 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Xiaowei primarily focused on the development of an Android custom seekbar component. Their contributions included implementing features such as a bubble view that displays progress, adding annotations, and optimizing the component's functionality. They also added new features like support for displaying section text, float progress values, and touch-to-seek functionality, as well as handling compatibility issues with MIUI and addressing bugs.
seekingbubbleandroid-libraryandroidseekbar
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