# Brian Li

> Software Engineer at Spellbrush

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brianli

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Spellbrush
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Carbon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2023 | Redwood City, California
Lead team building web application for preparing 3D models for printing.

● Built a react + three.js front end for manipulating models. 
● Maintained bazel, webpack, typescript build system
● Helped split and scale up services as the team and product grew
● Mentored developers on the team

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Lead front end developer for IBM Intelligent Video Analytics. Responsible for design and implementation of new UI features.

● Rewrote large base of unorganized Dojo JavaScript code into manageable modules. 
● Improved user interface to make searching more intuitive.
● Wrote a Node.js proxy that distributed REST calls to our backend systems.
● Built an interactive GIS map to visualize data.

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Full stack developer for IBM Intelligent Transportation. Worked across the product stack building a system that analyzed traffic and transit data.

● Wrote traffic simulator in python using OpenStreetMap data.
● Scaled front end code to handle updating thousands of data points on a map.
● Helped optimize DB2 performance on tables with millions of rows continuously streaming data.
● Converted bash install scripts to python.

### Software Intern @ SAS
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Cary, North Carolina
Worked on SAS's internal web team to improve the company's websites and social media portals.

● Built SAS's social media platform from scratch with WordPress.
● Scraped various internal websites to build an internal portal for company information.
● Improved mobile experience of internal websites through responsive web design and reducing initial content load .
● Automated previously manual processes by writing cron jobs for our Tomcat servers.

### Web Developer @ Freelance
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Worked as a freelance web designer to design and build websites for various clients. 

● Created a CMS for a client that allowed them to update their website through email.
● Designed and developed custom Wordpress themes.
● Built many sites with Apache, MySQL, and PHP so they could be easily deployed on shared hosting sites.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
North Carolina State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brian-li-899b11b6

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Last updated: 2026-03-30