Summary
Yangde Li is an SDE II at AWS with 11 years of software engineering experience focused on distributed and parallel computing, web development, and GenAI-driven cloud enhancements. He has delivered production-grade capabilities for RDS—working on Performance Insights, Recommendations, and platform services—bringing deep backend and DevOps experience to large-scale cloud systems. His background spans research and applied optimization, from NFV and heterogeneous multi-core resource management (published work) to migrating microservice backends and cutting response times with caching and sharding. Proficient in Java, C++, and Python, he combines academic rigor from Shanghai Jiao Tong and the University of Washington Bothell with hands-on cloud architecture and performance tuning. Yangde is currently exploring ways to embed GenAI into cloud operations to make observability and recommendations smarter and more proactive.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of Washington Bothell
English, Chinese