Steven Li
Software Engineer with a Passion for Transforming Ideas into Digital Reality.
Work Experience
Software Engineer 3
Walmart Inc, 2022 - Present
Operated backend systems for the display of sponsored products on Walmart.com
Help increase revenue by over 1B year over year
Responsible for handling and maintaining our AzureDB, SolrDB, Apache CassandraDB and Vespa for item and ads data
Created and handled microservices using Kubernetes and data streams with Apache Kafka
Developed machine learning systems to rank and score ads based on potential revenue and relevance to the customer
Constructed new system to handle ad placements on all pages
Software Engineer
University of Rochester (Warner School of Education), 2019 - 2022
Enhancing the Warner School Internet and Intranet by creating new features for the website
Improved load times of the website by 20% by optimizing images and image generation
Used a technology stack based on MySQL, PHP and JQuery with a custom CMS
Workshop Leader
University of Rochester, 2019 - 2020
Led workshops for Introduction to Java and Data Structures and Algorithms
My Projects
Check out some of the projects I've worked on as a software engineer.
Education
A summary of my educational background and achievements.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.
Coursework in
Data Structures and Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Organization
High School Diploma
Graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School