Shangyan Li
Co-Founder, CTO at Sylvan Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolShangyan Li is a product-focused technologist and founder with 11 years of experience building AI-driven SaaS and payments products for food supply chains and blockchain systems. As Co-founder and CTO of Butter, he led development of a cloud ERP, B2B e-commerce, payments, and a first-to-market AI order-entry assistant that scaled to 10k+ locations and $330M+ GMV before a Series A-backed acquisition by GrubMarket. At GrubMarket he directed enterprise AI product development and now continues to build vertical AI platforms as Co-founder and CTO at Sylvan Labs. Trained in Computer Science at Harvard with early research in ML-driven knowledge base population, he blends research rigor with hands-on engineering across product, implementation, and customer success. Less obvious: his background spans both decentralized finance and payments infrastructure startups, giving him rare fluency in both marketplace ops and secure financial rails.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Harvard University
English, Chinese, French, German, Latin, Greek
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Github Skills (26)
stored-procedures9
blockchain9
xrp9
neo4j9
cpp8
apoc8
cryptography8
cryptocurrency8
neo4j-plugin8
graph-algorithms8
graph-database7
cypher6
relay5
graphene5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ShangyanLi/rippled
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Decentralized cryptocurrency blockchain daemon implementing the XRP Ledger in C++
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
blockchaincppcryptocurrencyxrp
ShangyanLi/n2nmn
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 day
pytorchiccvquestionend-to-enddeep-learning
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