Zexi Li
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolZexi Li is a Lead Research Scientist focused on embodied agent brains, combining 11 years of engineering experience with active research roles at Knowin AI, CUHK, and Qwen’s MLSys Agent Team. He brings a rare mix of deep academic training—PhD work at Cambridge and Zhejiang University—and hands-on cloud-native engineering, having contributed backend and DevOps improvements to the notable open-source multi-cloud platform cloudpods. His background spans edge-cloud recommendation research at Ant Group and practical infrastructure work like baremetal server provisioning, Kubernetes support, and GRUB integration. Based in Hangzhou, Zexi bridges rigorous research and production-grade systems, consistently translating experimental ideas into scalable deployments. An interesting detail: alongside his AI focus he holds an MBA and a dual bachelor’s background combining engineering and public administration, hinting at a blend of technical leadership and strategic thinking.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Minor degree in Technology-based MBA., Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Minor degree in Technology-based MBA. at Zhejiang UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at 浙江大学
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
bare-metal10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
networking9
apidoc9
linux9
cloud-infrastructure9
api9
shell8
script8
sh8
system-administration8
scripting8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
yunionio/cloudpods
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
A cloud-native open-source unified multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud platform. 开源、云原生的多云管理及混合云融合平台
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:170 reviews, 9768 commits, 11972 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zexi's contributions primarily revolve around the development and enhancement of the cloud platform's core functionalities. This is evident in their work on adding server network structures, unifying utility packages, and implementing configurations for baremetal disks. The user also demonstrated skills in infrastructure-related tasks by working on baremetal server creation, guest file system deployment and the inclusion of support for the GRUB bootloader. In addition, the user showed expertise in Kubernetes cluster support and the implementation of component related features.
gcpbaremetal-provisioninginfrastructure-managementhybrid-cloudaws
yunionio/yunionos
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Baremetal PXE ROM
Contributions:47 commits, 43 PRs, 71 pushes in 4 years 6 months
baremetalrompxe
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