Summary
Yingnan Li is a Lead Engineer based in the NYC area with 9 years of full-stack experience building and maintaining scalable web applications across Node.js, React, Ruby on Rails, and cloud services. At AlphaSights she progressed from Software Engineer II to Lead Engineer, demonstrating strong delivery and team leadership on production systems. She has a track record of modernizing front-ends, implementing robust testing pipelines with Jest/Enzyme, and owning deployments on Heroku and AWS. Comfortable across Mac, Linux, and Windows, she pairs hands-on coding with CI/CD and performance tooling knowledge (Webpack, Lighthouse, Jenkins). Notably, she led the design of a 52-table inventory system and cross-framework integrations between Rails and Node services, showing an ability to bridge heterogeneous stacks. A quick learner and collaborative mentor, she brings practical pragmatism to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Xidian University
English, Chinese