Yi Li
Software Engineering Manager at Google
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Li is a software engineering manager with 14 years of experience building large-scale advertising, search, and data-processing systems across major tech companies in Japan and globally. Currently leading AI-driven Search features at Google, he combines product-facing work on query formulation and LLM-enabled modes with deep expertise in backend systems, streaming/batch data pipelines, and auction/pricing algorithms developed at Indeed and Rakuten. He has a strong hands-on background in distributed systems, Hadoop/Kafka ecosystems, microservices, and cloud automation, and has repeatedly moved from individual contributor to tech lead roles while retaining coding fluency. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he has a track record of improving search quality and ad platform performance and of shipping complex, data-intensive features for localized markets. An engineer fluent in both eastern and western tech cultures, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach informed by academic research early in his career.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Peking UniversityBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
tcp6
smoke6
tcp-server6
smoke-testing5
replay5
stability5
stream5
stress-testing5
testing5
simulation5
redis4
performance-testing4
homebrew4
memcached4
nginx4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pank7/pank7-config
May 2012 - Jun 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 3 pushes in 10 years 2 months
pank7/pank7-lib
Dec 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 year 2 months
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