Summary
Zhao Li is a pragmatic systems engineer and C/C++ programmer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, embedded and robotics software and now designing ultra-low-latency DMA trading systems at Barclays in Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and has led cross-disciplinary projects at ASTRI evaluating autonomous driving stacks, developing semantics SLAM and navigation modules for indoor robots, and delivering industrial AGV/autoguide solutions. Comfortable moving between microcontroller firmware (STM8/STM32), real-time motion control, and production-grade low-latency trading code, he combines research rigor with hands-on delivery. An understated strength is his ability to translate academic-grade algorithms into robust, field-deployable systems under tight performance constraints.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)