Zhiqin Li
Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhiqin Li is a software development engineer in Seattle with nine years of experience building systems from embedded firmware to cloud backends, currently contributing at AWS. He blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking, previously prototyping IoT solutions and shipping embedded software for consumer electronics. At AWS he has improved real-time streaming tooling—contributing bug fixes and Windows socket handling to the widely used Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC SDK and adding CN region support. Comfortable across C/C++ and cloud services, he focuses on robustness (null checks, safer signaling) and platform interoperability. Zhiqin maintains a technical blog that documents his cross-domain work and practical problem-solving approach. His background in automation from Ocean University of China underpins a pragmatic, test-driven style bridging hardware and cloud.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation, Bachelor's degree, Automation at Ocean University of China
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
c1710
signaling10
socket10
webrtc10
c1110
aws9
libwebsockets9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zhiqin primarily focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the functionality of the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK. They implemented socket closing functionality for Windows, addressed potential null pointer dereferences in signaling components, and improved the codebase by checking for null values in critical areas. Furthermore, the user updated the libwebsockets library and added support for the CN region within the project.
realtimewebrtc-sdkstreamswebrtcrealtime-communication
codingspirit/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
Dec 2020 - Dec 2023
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams.
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years
realtimestreamswebrtc-sdkwebrtcrealtime-communication
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