Yili Li
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Shanghai, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYili Li is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Shanghai with a decade-plus career advancing through engineering and leadership roles at Cerner and Microsoft. With experience spanning hands-on development to senior management, Yili has climbed from software engineer to principal manager within Microsoft since 2020, demonstrating rapid impact in product delivery and team scaling. He holds an MS in Computer Science from California State University, Fresno and brings a blend of technical depth and people leadership that thrives in large enterprise environments. Known for translating complex healthcare and cloud-side requirements into operational teams and reliable systems, Yili balances strategic architecture decisions with day-to-day execution. A detail that often goes unnoticed: his career progression reflects consistent role expansion every few years, suggesting a pattern of quickly taking on broader technical and managerial ownership.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Nanchang UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
Github Skills (31)
azure-container-apps10
spring-data10
swagger10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-cli10
azure-resource-manager10
api10
rest10
resource-manager10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
cli10
microsoft9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/java-buildpack-e2e-test
Nov 2023 - Sep 2024
E2E Test for Azure Java buildpacks
Contributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 7 PRs in 9 months
yilims/container-apps-deploy-action
Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
GitHub Action for building and deploying Azure Container Apps
Contributions:23 releases, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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