Summary
Xiaoyi Li is a seasoned AI and infrastructure leader with nine years of experience building large-scale ML systems, HPC platforms, and production pipelines across companies from Google to XPENG and Inceptio. He has led cross-company efforts to deliver an exaflops-class hybrid cloud and managed teams of 40+ engineers to operationalize pre-training, inference, data platforms, and ML CI/CD. His work spans research (top-tier publications) and productization—driving ML launches that improved core metrics and revenue while establishing company-wide standards for data, annotation, and model lifecycle. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Xiaoyi blends hands-on engineering with people management and strategic architecture, often founding and scaling teams and platforms from scratch. A less obvious strength is his track record of unifying hardware-software stacks for distributed training and serving, turning experimental research into reliable, automated production systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University at Buffalo
English, Chinese