Li Zhuang
Co-Founder at Zelos
San Ramon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLi Zhuang is a seasoned autonomous driving engineer and entrepreneur with eight years of experience building production-grade routing, planning, and search systems across Baidu, JD.com, and his current startup Zelos in the San Ramon Bay Area. As a co-founder and former Senior Architect at Baidu USA, he designed PnC architectures and led router and planning implementations that supported large-scale deployments and optimization efforts. His contributions to the high-profile Apollo open-source autonomous driving platform focused on routing module modernization, cybertron migration, and critical bug fixes—evidence of hands-on backend systems expertise. At Baidu he also delivered measurable product impact across image search monetization and personalized user cards, demonstrating an ability to blend algorithmic optimization with business outcomes. He holds advanced technical training (doctoral work at Purdue) and a background in computer science from Hangzhou and Zhejiang, combining academic rigor with practical, production-first engineering. Colleagues would describe him as challenge-driven, comfortable spanning research, core system design, and startup execution.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Zhejiang Forestry CollegeDoctor's Degree Technology, Doctor's Degree Technology at Purdue UniversityMaster CS, Master CS at Hangzhou Dianzi University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (5)
url-routing10
c-language10
apollo10
cprogramming-language10
autonomous-driving10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ApolloAuto/apollo
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
An open autonomous driving platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
Contributions summary:Li primarily contributed to the routing module within the Apollo autonomous driving platform. Their work involved adding and modifying code related to routing components, including header files and core logic. Key contributions focused on cybertron migration and bug fixes within the routing functionalities. The user also updated and cleaned up code, and fixed potential build issues.
autonomous-drivingapolloautonomous-vehiclesautonomyself-driving-car
zhuangli1987/tensorflow_wrapper
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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