Zongwei Li
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZongwei Li is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience leading cross-platform engineering at scale, currently directing a team of 10+ that powers in-product support across 100+ Google products. He blends full‑stack expertise—web, mobile, backend—and applied ML to streamline user support journeys, set technical direction, and mentor other tech leads. His career includes building high‑throughput MapReduce pipelines, scalable notification platforms at Amazon, and co-founding a SaaS CRM used by over 100 organizations, demonstrating both product instincts and operational ownership. Zongwei is an active contributor to Google’s open-source Plus Codes project, improving the Java implementation for accuracy and maintainability, reflecting attention to precision in location and distributed systems. Based in Irvine, CA, he also routinely performs privacy reviews for launches, combining engineering leadership with strong data stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (6)
javas10
bigdecimal10
java10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
cpp9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/open-location-code
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 103 PRs, 72 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Zongwei focused on refactoring and improving the Java implementation of the Open Location Code library. Their contributions primarily involved adhering to the Google Java Style Guide, using single-line JavaDoc comments, and making the `OpenLocationCode` class final. They also incorporated BigDecimal.ZERO and added a maximum code length, enhancing code clarity and maintainability. Additional changes involved fixing precision issues during code creation.
pluscodepythongeolatitudejavascript
zongweil/open-location-code
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Open Location Codes are short, generated codes that can be used like street addresses, for places where street addresses don't exist.
Contributions:50 pushes, 33 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 10 months
streetlocationaddressesshort
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