Yaoqiang Li
Staff Software Engineer at Capital One
Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolYaoqiang Li is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, cost-efficient infrastructure and backend systems across cloud and on-prem environments. He has deep expertise in distributed databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS, and at LotusFlare led novel OpenSearch-based hierarchical storage and lifecycle solutions that cut costs by two-thirds while improving availability and security. Comfortable in systems and low-level development, he has shipped kernel drivers, high-throughput C++ TCP servers, and complex MySQL schemas for massive IoT time-series workloads. A strong algorithms practitioner (active on LeetCode with public code on GitHub), he pairs rigorous academic training—a PhD from University of Waterloo—with a hands-on, product-minded approach to reduce operational costs and latency. Based in Vaughan, Ontario, he also balances engineering with endurance sports, reflecting steady persistence in tackling large-scale technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (35)
vpn10
proxy10
ios9
cocos2d-js9
windows9
android9
nodejs9
metal9
lua9
cocos2d-x9
game-development8
goagent8
cocos-creator8
redux8
game-engine8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yaoqiang/playground
Oct 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
yaoqiang/zaguzi
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
game server based nodejs, pomelo, mongodb, websocket.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
mongodbnodejswebsocket
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