Yu Li
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu Li is a staff software engineer in California with ~20+ years of systems and full-stack experience and nine years at LinkedIn specializing in scalable backend and build tooling. He has deep C/C++ roots from building Yahoo’s real-time monitoring infrastructure and a patent on time-series storage, and he designed a complete big-data stack single-handedly for a startup. As a founder and full‑stack mobile architect he shipped Smallandlord, inventing a seamless cross‑device sync and offline-first UX without iCloud, and he contributes to notable open-source projects like Bluepill and LinkedIn’s Rest.li improving iOS UI test speed and Gradle compatibility. Known for bridging low-level performance engineering with product-focused engineering, he combines distributed systems, mobile sync protocols, and automation to deliver reliable, production-grade services.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS & BS, Computer Science, MS & BS, Computer Science at Nanjing UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
javas10
xcode10
api-rest10
rest-api10
ios10
gradlew10
build-automation10
restful-api10
api-design10
java10
gradle10
web-framework9
netframework9
testing9
php-framework9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MobileNativeFoundation/bluepill
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Bluepill is a reliable iOS testing tool that runs UI tests using multiple simulators on a single machine
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 release, 43 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Yu implemented features to support reusing existing running simulators between test bundles. They modified the Bluepill codebase to allow for the reuse of simulators by checking for and utilizing a specified device ID. These changes included modifying the simulator runner to find and use an existing simulator, and writing and reading a device ID file to track the simulator's UDID for reuse across test runs. The user's changes enable faster iOS UI testing.
multiple-simulatorssimulatorsparalleltestingbluepill
linkedin/rest.li
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Rest.li is a REST+JSON framework for building robust, scalable service architectures using dynamic discovery and simple asynchronous APIs.
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yu focused on resolving Gradle-related validation errors and deprecation warnings within the Rest.li framework's Gradle plugin. They addressed issues related to Gradle 7 compatibility, including changes to task properties and API calls. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and fixed a deprecated configuration name used in the PegasusPlugin. The user also made improvements to the build process and resolved some validations issues.
architecturesapiscalableasynchronousrestful
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