Summary
Yang Li is a Senior Software Developer based in Ottawa with two decades of full-stack Java experience and a nine-year track record in Canadian tech organizations. He has delivered production systems across diverse domains—online retail, precious metals trading, telecom provisioning, healthcare management, security/password management, and DNS provisioning—bringing strong domain adaptability and systems thinking. At CIRA and The OpenNMS Group he has moved between senior and principal engineering roles, demonstrating both hands-on coding and architectural leadership in internet infrastructure and network management. Yang combines deep backend expertise with practical operational awareness, often returning to organizations where he has built durable relationships and institutional knowledge. Educated with a graduate diploma and master’s in computer science from Concordia University, he blends formal training with pragmatic engineering across long-lived, mission-critical systems. Colleagues would note his uncommon mix of cross-domain experience and a preference for solving gritty integration and provisioning challenges rather than only greenfield projects.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma and Master Degree Computer Science, Graduate Diploma and Master Degree Computer Science at Concordia University