Summary
Zhencong Li is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale consumer products at Snap and Facebook, currently based in Riverside, California. He has worked across core teams including Messenger Lite and internet.org, contributing to zero-rating modules that improved connectivity for low-bandwidth users. At Snap since 2020, he continues to ship production-grade features for high-traffic platforms, blending backend and client-side engineering. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Riverside and a BS from Jilin University, grounding his practical experience with strong academic training. Not actively looking for new roles, he nonetheless stays engaged with engineering challenges and product-driven development. Colleagues would describe him as a steady, detail-oriented engineer who prefers solving infrastructure and edge-case problems that quietly improve user experience.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer science, MS, Computer science at University of California, Riverside
BS, computer science and technology, BS, computer science and technology at Jilin University
Chinese, Chinese, English