Gengwu Li
Software Engineer at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGengwu Li is a software engineer with nine years of experience building backend services and user-facing web systems, currently contributing to core social media infrastructure at Google. He combines a strong embedded systems background—developed through early firmware work in motion control and robotics—with a master's in Computer Science from Rice, which fueled a transition to web development and scalable backend design. At Groupon he focused on backend engineering for commerce features, and his practical customer-facing experience informs his product-minded approach to engineering. Known for turning telemetry and logs into actionable site indicators, he emphasizes measurable improvements in performance and user experience. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a rare blend of low-level systems rigor and full-stack web proficiency to complex distributed applications.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Automation, 3.55, Bachelor of Engineering, Automation, 3.55 at Sichuan UniversityMaster’s, Computer Science, 3.87, Master’s, Computer Science, 3.87 at Rice University
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
algorithm6
google5
algorithms5
python5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gengwuli/Talk-Tie
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
gengwuli/coding
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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