Lu Li
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorLu Li is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend systems and AI-driven platforms. With a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a research background in probabilistic reasoning and communication theory, Lu brings rigorous mathematical thinking to production engineering. At Uber, they led the evolution of a global menu platform serving millions of items and progressed through roles focused on distributed systems and ML deployment; they now build at Meta on systems-level challenges. Their technical footprint spans Go, Python, C++, gRPC/Protobuf, Kafka, Pinot, Kubernetes, and modern LLM tooling like LangChain and Pinecone, enabling scalable real-time services and AI integrations. Known for translating research-grade algorithms into operational services, Lu combines deep theory with hands-on implementation and observability practices. An uncommon strength is their track record of moving from foundational research in belief propagation and coding theory to shipping resilient, large-scale production systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
shell8
cli8
zsh7
php7
docker6
macos6
rails6
python6
cli-app6
storm-topology5
git5
oh-my-zsh4
storm4
capacity3
topology2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
llraphael/Storm-AutoRebalance
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
performacerebalancestorm-topologycapacitytopology
llraphael/llraphael.github.io
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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