Summary
Yu Li is a versatile Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems and production ML pipelines across startups and large companies like eBay and ByteDance. Comfortable across Java and Python ecosystems, he has delivered high-throughput services (Postgres/Redis-backed APIs, Spring, JAX-RS) and worked with Spark/Hadoop for big data acceleration and PySpark-driven time-series systems. His background in electrical engineering and WPI research gives him a strong foundation in signal processing and optimization—evident in a 15x performance improvement on a Genex time-series platform. Equally at home on front-end stacks (React, Leaflet) and model development (TensorFlow, XGBoost), he focuses on pragmatic feature engineering and performance-first engineering. Based in Seattle, he combines deep systems thinking with hands-on delivery of scalable, observable services that handle thousands of transactions per second.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology