Yong Li
Director Of Engineering at Coupang
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYong Li is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years building high-performance mobile products and now directing engineering at Coupang from Menlo Park. He rose through senior technical roles at Google and Airbnb and contributed as an iOS developer at Facebook, Yahoo, Tango and others, combining hands-on app architecture with people leadership. His background in computer graphics from Tsinghua underpins a deep focus on efficient media and imaging solutions—evidenced by an open-source async GIF decoder and memory-conscious image viewer for iOS. Known for shipping polished mobile experiences (Flickr, Messenger, Tango) and optimizing performance at scale, he blends low-level technical craft with strategic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex UI and multimedia challenges into reliable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
master Computer Graphics, master Computer Graphics at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (13)
objective-c10
swift10
ios10
mobile-development10
uikit9
image-rendering9
uinavigationcontroller6
uiscrollview6
uicollectionview6
uiviewcontroller6
google-maps6
uinavigationbar6
uiview6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
liyong03/YLGIFImage
Mar 2014 - Aug 2016
Async GIF image decoder and Image viewer supporting play GIF images. It just use very less memory.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yong primarily contributed to the development of an iOS application, focusing on the integration and display of animated GIFs. Their work involved creating a custom `YLGIFImage` class to handle GIF decoding and a `YLImageView` to present the animations. Key contributions include initializing the project, fixing a crash related to `NSNull` images, supporting iPhone 6 and 6+ screen sizes, and adding a Swift demo.
asyncimage-decoderimage-viewer
liyong03/iOSDemos
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:99 commits, 1 push in 5 months
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