Zhaohai Li
SRE - SWE at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolZhaohai Li is an experienced SRE/SWE with 12 years building and stabilizing production systems, currently focusing on ML training workload scheduling and reliability at Google in Munich. He brings deep Unix/Linux expertise, distributed systems instincts, and a history of architecting corp platform services that verify OS releases across diverse hardware and enforce security policies. Previously he shipped full-stack streaming and backend systems at Qiniu and startups, and early-career work spans embedded and telecom systems from Sunplus to Huawei. An active open-source contributor, he improved cross-language coordinate transforms and optimized backend behavior for popular self-hosted projects, demonstrating both performance tuning and cross-DB compatibility. Known for fast learning and pragmatic design, he pairs hands-on coding with operational ownership and a mission to make colleagues more efficient.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians, Bachelor Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians at Beihang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
back-end-development10
testing10
c1110
c1710
go10
photo-gallery10
api-design9
python9
benchmarking9
sqlite9
api9
rust9
go-gorm8
wpgraphql7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
googollee/eviltransform
Sep 2013 - Mar 2017
Transport coordinate between earth(WGS-84) and mars in china(GCJ-02).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 31 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zhaohai primarily contributed to the core functionality of the project, which involves coordinate transformations between WGS-84 and GCJ-02 systems. They added and optimized the coordinate transformation functions in multiple languages (Go, C, JavaScript, Rust, Python), including test cases for verification and performance benchmarks. Further contributions involved improvements in code efficiency and the addition of performance tests.
gcj-02wgsearthmarstransport
photoview/photoview
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:329 reviews, 109 PRs, 51 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Zhaohai primarily contributed to the back-end of the photo gallery application. Their work focused on optimizing the timeline order for SQLite3 databases, ensuring it matched the behavior of MySQL and PostgreSQL. They also optimized user album filters and made code changes to bump the Go version and update modules. Furthermore, they implemented the API server to listen to specific IP addresses.
selfhostedgoogle-photosphoto-galleryexifnas
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