Yang Li
Staff Engineer Staff Architect Lead Technical Architect at American Express
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Li is a seasoned Staff Engineer and Architect with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-performance, resilient enterprise systems across finance, e-commerce, telecom and government. He specializes in non-invasive framework design, microservices, event-driven integration and cloud-native platforms, having led large-scale deployments using Spring Boot, Cassandra/Yugabyte, Kafka, Solace and Kubernetes. At American Express he created prefabricated, loosely coupled frameworks and automated refactoring practices that cut delivery timelines from years to weeks and powered an active-active authorization data pipeline at 3,500 TPS. Known for resolving the hardest concurrency and scalability challenges, he combines deep low-level tuning experience (GC, DB, distributed transactions) with pragmatic product-focused architecture. A collaborative technical leader and mentor, he champions industrialized review processes and fact-based communication to align stakeholders and reduce tech risk. Trained as an electrical engineer, he brings an analytical systems mindset that surfaces elegant, maintainable solutions where others see complexity.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (101)
distro10
unix10
linux10
linux-kernel10
test-automation10
test-project10
posix10
libc10
upstream10
manjaro10
testing9
filesystem9
luks9
zen9
kernel9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xuyang0410/ltp
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Linux Test Project http://linux-test-project.github.io/
Contributions:10 PRs, 14 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
linuxtest-project
linux-test-project/ltp
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Linux Test Project (mailing list: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp)
Contributions:307 commits, 2 PRs, 105 pushes in 3 years 9 months
unixposixtest-automationtest-projectmanjaro
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