Zheng Li
Sr. Software Engineering Manager at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZheng Li is a hands-on senior software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud data platforms and real-time data pipelines across enterprise and high-growth companies. He has led teams at LinkedIn, VMware, Amplitude, Pure Storage and Oracle, shipping distributed storage, query engines and Kubernetes-based container platforms. Known for recruiting and growing high-performing teams from the ground up, he combines technical depth in big data ETL and distributed systems with empathetic, collaborative leadership. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zheng bridges R&D rigor from his MS in Electrical Engineering with product-focused execution at scale. He frequently operates at the intersection of infrastructure and data engineering, comfortable both architecting systems and diving into code when needed. Less obvious: his career path shows rapid progression into senior management by repeatedly transforming complex backend platforms into stable, production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Exchange program Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityMaster of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at University of MinnesotaBachelor of Science Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science Communications Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology
Github Skills (91)
swagger10
prometheus-exporter10
rest-api10
monitoring10
code-generator10
codegen10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
openapi-codegen10
java10
swagger-codegen10
spring-boot10
api-documentation10
parsing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Jeckyli/settings
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
zhengl7/purity_fb_python_client
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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