# Andrew Li > Software Engineer @ IXL | Masters in CS @ Brown University | SF Bay Area Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewli3 Founding engineer on AI initiatives across IXL and Rosetta Stone, building production-grade LLM systems serving 100k+ educators and millions of global learners. Currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ IXL Learning Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, CA I am a Full Stack Software Engineer on IXL's AI team, Spark Studio. I was part of the initial launch of Spark Studio as one of the only three members and the product today serves over 100,000 users. In August 2025, my team was tasked with building an AI Chatbot as part of the new Rosetta Stone language learning experience. I started the project from its conception to its launch in March 2026, pioneering the data model and authentication implementation. - Launched IXL's AI product Spark Studio - Built the initial database for Spark Studio - Prototyped open-ended and scenario-based AI chatbots for Rosetta Stone language learning, designed with long-term and short-term memory and text internationalization - Architected 30+ educational tools and sharable games for teachers, including jeopardy, flashcards, and worksheets - Built a comprehensive text editor that is capable of rendering LaTeX math and efficiently saves content - Led the tool history initiative that resurfaces past tool history in a paginated table view - Monitored production systems using OpenSearch and Grafana, investigating logs to ensure reliability and resolve issues ### Computer Science Head Teaching Assistant (TA) @ Brown University Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Providence, RI TA for CS1951V: Hypertext / Hypermedia (Fall 2023) TA for CS1951A: Data Science (Spring 2023) Head TA for CS0111: Computing Foundations: Data (Fall 2022) TA for CS0111: Computing Foundations: Data (Spring 2022) TA for CS0111: Computing Foundations: Data (Fall 2021) - Head teaching assistant for 300+ students; active role in course design, learning objectives, and content - Develop assignment autograder and multiple course websites - Manage a staff of 30+ TAs; organized and led interview and hiring process; closely manage and train team of 12 TAs - Lead weekly 2 hours labs; hold weekly office hours; grade assignments ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Brown University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States - Conduct research with Prof. Jeff Huang in Human Computer Interactions - Researched solutions to improve the online chat efficiency among asynchronous communication applications - Explore pre-emptive mental health prevention for adolescents via social support apps - Engineered the solution with web sockets and Express backend to facilitate chat rooms for research participants ### President @ Brown Computer Science DUG Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Brown University As Brown’s official student association, CS DUG serves the entire 1500+ CS undergraduate population. - Manage and run DUG organization; oversee leadership board, committees, and operations - Revitalized the organization, increasing the leadership board from 1 member to 18 members - Oversee weekly meetings; ensure ideation - Organize computer-science events; manage and coordinate all logistics - Handle budget; conduct marketing, promotion, and recruitment ### Project Manager and Lead Full Stack Engineer @ Full Stack at Brown Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Brown University FullStack at Brown is the highest full stack software engineering club where teams develop web applications for the Brown and greater Providence community. Responsibilities: - Interact with client weekly to gather requirements and give updates - Architect solutions and evaluate tech stacks for the web apps - Manage GitHub project board and create tickets for team member to simulate agile process - Perform both front-end web development and back-end database management tasks as the main contributor - Prototype and design wireframes in Figma Projects: - HealthyApp: a mobile and web app designed to redefine shopping, meal-planning, and delivery space for patients managing diabetes and cardiovascular disease to eat healthy on a budget - Carte Blanche: a magazine web app that supports images, rich text, and podcasts for its mission to further decolonization at Brown ### Software Engineer Intern @ Intus Care Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Enhanced the industry-leading electronic health record data analytics platform that serves over 30 PACE organizations - Pioneered the implementation of the internal admin portal used to manage staff users, organizations, and feature flags as the lead contributor - Challenged the existing pull request system and designed a new JIRA integrated workflow solution - Actively contribute production-level code, completing ~6 tickets per sprint ### Strategy and Technology Consultant @ Brown Technology Consulting Group (BTCG) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Brown University Brown Technology Consulting Group provides technology consulting services to established companies and local startups in the business and tech space. Responsibilities: - Analyze and understand clients' business objectives and technology needs - Provide strong industry advice and recommendations on technology solutions and strategies through in-depth assessments of solutions - Identify opportunities for improvement and optimization of technology infrastructure - Develop and present technology proposals and project plans to clients. - Conduct risk assessments and propose risk mitigation strategies - Deliver high-quality reports and documentation to clients Projects: - JukebAux: evaluated both mainstream (Spotify, iTunes, and SoundCloud) and non-mainstream music libraries and APIs to a startup called JukebAux that provides a paid model to queue songs for a DJ at a party ### Coding & Software Development Intern @ Prudential Financial Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Newark, New Jersey, United States - Responsible for transforming Prudential’s enterprise digital capabilities and the technology driving their retirement, group insurance, individual life insurance, annuities, retail advice, enabling solutions and marketing businesses - Design and develop code based on technical requirements; executing tests to ensure stability and performance of the code - Design and develop applications which interact with databases to manipulate data; handle back-end complexities - Won Prudential’s All-Intern Hackathon (1st Place) ### Research Intern @ Ghost Orchid Coalition Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Nashville, TN - Assisted in litigation support by researching human trafficking in the Washington D.C. Area, specifically the hospitality industry - Culminated and produced a 30-page report that centers on active and settled lawsuits against hotels ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Brown University ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Brown University ### Advanced Diploma Mclean High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andrew-li-9ba72a1b4 --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewli3 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewli3/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11