Yusheng Li
Chief Engineer at Evergrande Auto
Clinton Township, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYusheng Li is a Chief Engineer with nine years of recent software-focused experience and more than two decades in automotive engineering, specializing in ADAS, sensor fusion, and intelligent vehicle systems. He has led R&D and new-technology divisions at major OEMs including Changan, GM, Ford, and now Evergrande Auto, building teams, prototype vehicles, and production integration paths for advanced driver assistance. Hands-on in both algorithm development and systems engineering, he has practical expertise deploying perception, tracking, and collision-avoidance features from simulation to road tests. On the software side he contributes to cloud-native infrastructure projects like the popular Kong API Gateway, improving stability, metrics, and plugin reliability—an indicator of his cross-domain fluency in embedded vehicle systems and backend/DevOps work. Holding a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, he combines deep technical research background with program-level leadership and a track record of turning experimental ADAS tech into manufacturable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who connects low-level sensors to scalable systems and production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
Github Skills (16)
lua10
kong10
nginx10
devops10
api-gateway10
dockers9
luajit9
docker9
prometheus8
cicd8
reverse-proxy7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
api-management7
microservices-application7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:174 reviews, 33 commits, 78 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Yusheng primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the stability of the Kong API Gateway. Their contributions include resolving issues related to blocking sleep phases, Prometheus metrics, and plugin server usage. Additionally, the user worked on refactoring and improving the statsd plugin, including renaming and removing older versions. They also contributed to the persistence of node IDs across restarts, ensuring the data plane functions correctly.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
vm-001/lua-radix-router
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
A lightweight high-performance and radix tree based router for Lua/LuaJIT/OpenResty https://github.com/vm-001/gateways-routing-benchmark
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 77 PRs in 1 year 3 months
konglualuajitopenapiopenresty
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