Summary
Zhenbo Li is a software developer with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning research, industry, and open-source contributions, now working at Evertz after graduate research at the University of Waterloo. He brings strong systems and data processing skills—implemented Hadoop, Spark, Vespa routing and CI/CD at Yahoo—and a deep interest in programming languages, with Rust, Scala and OCaml as favorites. His background bridges bioinformatics and software engineering, having applied statistical models and built tooling for proteomics workflows during a Sanofi co-op and pursued bioinformatics research at Waterloo and Northeastern. A longtime Linux user and open-source practitioner, he published fireSeqSearch to surface Logseq hits in search results and completed multiple GSoC projects early in his career. Known for pragmatic engineering and language-driven curiosity, he combines production-grade system design with research-informed problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Pharmacy, 3.5/4.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Pharmacy, 3.5/4.3 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, 4.0/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, 4.0/4.0 at Northeastern University
Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese