Yi Li
Cybersecurity Operation Analyst
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYi Li is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating security products and SOCs across China, Europe and Canada. He has driven product growth and operational excellence at industry leaders including Alibaba Cloud—where he scaled Cloud WAF into a top revenue driver—and supported global enterprises at Symantec and Forcepoint. Equally comfortable in product management, incident response and venture investing, Yi has led CVC initiatives and portfolio companies while building strategic alliances for large cybersecurity vendors. He pairs deep technical knowledge of WAF, NDR, SIEM, CWPP and EDR with practical engineering contributions to major open-source container projects like Moby/moby and distribution, demonstrating both code-level rigor and product-level impact. Fluent in cross-cultural collaboration and AI-augmented security operations, he currently runs a bank-grade SOC protecting billions of daily transactions with 99.99% uptime.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Telecommunication Engineering, BSc, Telecommunication Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance at Tsinghua UniversityMSc, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, MSc, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Chalmers University of TechnologyStanford Tsinghua Exchange Program (STEP), International Business, Stanford Tsinghua Exchange Program (STEP), International Business at Stanford University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (26)
container10
docker10
lib10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
boltdb10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
networking10
go10
api10
sdk10
cloud-storage10
alioss10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
denverdino/aliyungo
Apr 2015 - Nov 2021
Go SDK for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud) - Golang API for ECS, OSS, DNS, SLB, RDS, RAM, MNS, STS, SLS, MQ, Push, OpenSearch, DM, Container Service etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:398 commits, 173 PRs, 285 pushes in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yi's primary contributions focused on developing the Go SDK for Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) services. They started by implementing core functions within the `ecs` package for managing Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, including functions for describing instance status, starting, stopping, and rebooting instances. Further, they added functions for interacting with other ECS features like disks, security groups and vpc. They also added support for creating, and deleting snapshots. Finally, the user integrated basic functionality for working with the load balancer service.
pushalibabastsservice-containeraliyun
distribution/distribution
May 2015 - Dec 2018
The toolkit to pack, ship, store, and deliver container content
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 11 PRs, 26 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yi primarily contributed to the Aliyun OSS storage driver within the distribution/distribution repository. Their work involved integrating the OSS client library, focusing on features like writing to and reading from OSS, handling different configurations such as BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) and enabling HTTPS access. They also addressed code style issues and improved the tests related to the OSS driver. Their contributions enhanced the ability of the distribution/distribution project to interact with Aliyun OSS for container content storage.
containersshipdockerdelivercncf
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