Zhongmiao Li
Founding Senior Software Engineer at Retell AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolZhongmiao Li is a founding senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable cloud and AI systems, now leading development of voice AI agents at Retell AI. He combines deep distributed-systems expertise from a Ph.D. with hands-on engineering at top cloud providers—Microsoft (Azure, BingAds) and Coinbase—delivering production reliability, low-latency compute, and ML-driven quality improvements. His background spans cloud infrastructure, large-scale telemetry and automation (AWS internships), and research-driven problem solving, enabling him to bridge academic rigor with product-focused execution. Based in Vancouver, he’s known for tackling hard reliability and latency challenges and translating them into customer-facing AI capabilities that reshape service experiences.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Digital Media Technology, Bachelor Digital Media Technology at Zhejiang UniversityPh.D Distributed Systems, Ph.D Distributed Systems at Université catholique de LouvainMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree Distributed Computing, Master's degree Distributed Computing at Instituto Superior Técnico
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Github Skills (54)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
marsleezm/antidote
Jun 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:964 pushes, 85 branches in 3 years 8 months
marsleezm/spec_calvin
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:639 pushes, 36 branches in 2 years 1 month
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