Dali Wei
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDali Wei is an engineering leader and hands-on software architect with 11 years of experience building large-scale payment and platform systems from research to production. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he led teams at Airbnb to design a universal Incentive Campaign Platform that powered 350+ campaigns and $150M+ budgets and re-architected global payment instruments migrating 500M+ records into scalable services. He drove major reliability and performance wins—cutting incidents by 60%, on-call burden by 40%, and improving reconciliation throughput by 90%—while growing engineering culture and internal leadership. Before product engineering roles he applied AI research skills as a postdoc at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, bringing a data-driven approach to system design and simulation. An active backend contributor to the Kill Bill open-source billing platform, he’s experienced in database migrations, payment-processing fixes, and observability improvements. He combines PhD-level AI expertise with pragmatic engineering execution to deliver resilient, high-throughput financial platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence at Texas Tech UniversityMaster, Artificial Intelligence, Master, Artificial Intelligence at University of Science and Technology of ChinaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at China Agricultural University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
javas10
billing10
schema-design10
sql10
payment10
database-design10
schema10
db-schema10
java10
database-schema10
testing9
logging9
spring-boot8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
killbill/killbill
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 22 comments, 6 issues in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dali primarily focused on database schema modifications and bug fixes related to payment processing within the Kill Bill platform. Their contributions include updating the length of a field name in database tables, adding and updating migration files to reflect schema changes, and resolving an issue in the payment resource related to plugin properties. The user also added a test case related to the fix. Finally the user extended the pattern obsfucator to handle extra keywords in the logs.
paymentsecommercein-app-purchasesubscriptionsstorekit
FangChiehChou/CACC_ACC_MODEL_AIMSUN
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:92 commits in 2 months
plugsimulationplug-in
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