Yifan Li
Senior Software Engineer at Robinhood
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building high-scale backend systems for fintech and mobility platforms. He has driven impactful features and platform migrations at Robinhood and Uber—improving driver marketplace efficiency, scaling services internationally, and helping migrate microservices into a Go monorepo and shared DI platform. Earlier work at PayPal included payment orchestration and customer engagement systems that supported hundreds of millions of users and materially grew active accounts. Comfortable across distributed systems, databases, caching, and service SLAs, he pairs pragmatic engineering with clear documentation and cross-team collaboration. With an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and a background spanning telecom engineering to data science, he brings both deep technical breadth and a product-focused mindset to mission-driven projects.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science, Data Science at General AssemblyBS in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering with Management, BS in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering with Management at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsMS in Computer Science, Software System, MS in Computer Science, Software System at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBS in Electrical Engineering, Dual degree of B.S, Telecommunications Engineering with Management, BS in Electrical Engineering, Dual degree of B.S, Telecommunications Engineering with Management at Queen Mary, University of London
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
php3
terraform1
twilio1
terraform-provider1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
liyifan5923013/Resume
May 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year
liyifan5923013/go-ethereum
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Official Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
golangetherscanethereumblockchainethereum-protocol
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