Steven Li
Software Engineer with a Passion for Transforming Ideas into Digital Reality.
Work Experience
Overview of my current and former work experience.
Software Engineer 3
Walmart Inc · 2022 - Present
Operated backend systems for the display of sponsored products on Walmart.com
- Designing and implementing web-service based advertisement for sponsored products advertising platform, serving millions of advertisers and customers worldwide and generating 1B annual ads revenue at Walmart.com
- Created and sustained a cross-cloud distributed system using Java, Scala, Azure, RESTful, and other technologies to deliver core features for Sponsored Products, including ad targeting, bidding, filtering, scoring, and ranking
- Created a system to enhance ad recommendation relevance by dynamically generating vectors for items and used vector search (ANN) to find relevant items using Python, ML models, Spark, Hive, Cassandra, Airflow, Vespa, and GCP Dataproc.
- Designed and developed a new badging style for ads displaying real time fulfillment data generating over 5M additional annual ads revenue, working closely with various stakeholders such as frontend, product, fulfillment, and customers.
Software Engineer
University of Rochester (Warner School of Education) · 2019 - 2022
Enhancing the University of Rochester (Warner School of Education) Internet and Intranet by creating new features for the website
- Improved load times by 20% by optimizing images and creating a new image generation pipeline
- Used MySQL, PHP, and JQuery with a custom CMS
Workshop Leader (TA)
University of Rochester · 2019 - 2020
Led workshops for the University of Rochester on the following:
- Introduction to Java
- Data Structures and Algorithms
Skills
A showcase of my technical expertise.
Programming Languages
JavaScript
C++
C#
Scala
Python
Java
NodeJS
React
Cloud Platforms
AWS
GCP
Azure
DevOps & Tools
Docker
Kubernetes
Airflow
Big Data
Hive
Spark
Cassandra
My Projects
Check out some of the projects I've worked on as a software engineer.
The Orange
DandyHacks 2018 - Generated News Articles via Markov Chains and Web Scraping
Education
A summary of my educational background and achievements.
Bachelor of Science
University of Rochester | 2018 - 2022 | Computer ScienceGraduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, focusing on building scalable software and developing innovative solutions.
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Organization
High School Diploma
Brooklyn Technical High School | 2014 - 2018Graduated with honors, excelling in advanced mathematics and science courses.