# Derek Li 黎霆钧

> Fighting Bad AI with Good AI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/derekli1

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Fable Security
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Fable is the human risk platform that shapes employee behavior—automatically, in real time, right where people work. Cut risk. Sharpen habits. Build resilience.

### Engineering Manager @ Flexport
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Managed Flexport's TMS product and platform engineering teams (supporting ~15 engineers / 1 line manager). Launched and migrated 95% of traffic to the new internal TMS system. Responsible for data modeling the freight forwarding business and improving on-time %. Managed across web, backend, and mobile stack. Acting as product manager as well as engineering manager. Responsible for 5 promotions (1 Staff, 2 Seniors). Multiple "Top Performer" ratings.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California
Founding engineer of the Transmission, Flexport's trucker facing product, including a web-based fleet management system, and driver mobile app (React Native, GraphQL). Transmission is used by 99% of the flexport trucking volume.
https://www.transmissionapp.com
Automated 95% of trucking visibility for ocean containers. 
https://flexport.engineering/delivering-95-automated-trucking-visibility-for-ocean-containers-9461fe1167dd

### Software Engineer @ TellApart
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
- cross devices mobile retargeting ads
- owned ads serving service
- acquired by Twitter

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
owned Ads Delivery
investigated and fixed various bugs to recover 30% impressions loss
migrated ads data from Redis to Cassendra

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Menlo Park, California
Ads Targeting Team:
1. Designed and Implemented a monitoring framework that can provide auto generated graph of real time system status with alerts
2. Worked on a new feature in lookalike targeting

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Office 365 Team
Developed a web crawler to monitor and detect problematic links in the product

### Software Engineer @ Delphi
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | West Lafayette, IN
•	Automotive electronics verification using C#

### Software Engineering Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
•	Designed an off target test framework for modem SMS code testing
•	Contributed to the idea of a new Qualcomm Wireless Health product


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Purdue University

### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Purdue University

### Computer Science
Sun Yat-sen University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/formatjam

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Last updated: 2026-04-05