Yiwen Li
Quality Assurance Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYiwen Li is a Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating tests for trading and education platforms, currently at Balyasny Asset Management in New York. She has deep hands-on expertise in automation, scripting (Python, shell, C#), SQL, and test orchestration across UNIX/Linux and Windows environments, having led QA efforts at Virtu Financial and Fidessa. Yiwen blends strong programming skills with applied network/security and database knowledge to design test plans, build environments, and improve regression efficiency through custom automation. Her background includes full lifecycle testing, on-site troubleshooting, and integrating tools like JIRA, Git/Perforce, and Jackal to accelerate releases. Notably, she pairs classical QA practices with developer-level scripting—often writing bespoke Java/C# tools and SQL queries—to resolve complex production issues and streamline deployments.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Shanghai UniversityNo. 2 High School of East China Normal University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
python6
rust4
aws2
security2
linter2
kubernetes1
computer-vision1
monitor1
cloud-computing1
ptrace1
camera1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
detectivelyw/lind-linuxkit-project
May 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:41 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
detectivelyw/lind_paper_nsdi17
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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