# Emily Li

> Software Engineer at Benchling

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/emilyli

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Benchling
Jan 2020 – Present

### Engineering Intern @ Gusto
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Built system to adjust for minimum wage changes in salaries of 1700+ employees at 1400 client companies 
•	Designed full-stack, automatic system in Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and React from scratch 
•	Engaged UX, product, and compliance partners to prioritize features according to key customer needs

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
•	Collaborated with machine learning team of 8 to personalize rows of content on Prime Video homepage
•	Designed and implemented a Scala library to generate metrics for comparing different ranking schemas 
•	Configured Apache Spark jobs running in AWS for big data processing and building machine learning models

### CodeU Student @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
•	Built a web application in Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS with a team of 4 peers over 12 weeks
•	Practiced industry best practices such as contributing to open source software and conducting code reviews

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
•      Published results of research project at Speech Prosody 2018
•      Created large-scale audio analysis databases of speech corpora using NumPy, SciPy, pandas, and openpyxl
•	Developed Python modules that interact with Praat and Festival programs to process hundreds of hours of audio data from over 60 speakers
•	Collaborated with group of 6 to synthesize intelligible voices for low-resource languages

### Simons Research Fellow @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Stony Brook
Conducted independent research project in the Department of Developmental Biology under the supervision of a faculty mentor.

### Research Assistant @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
Assisted a doctorate student with his research project on embryonic stem cells.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Columbia University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/emily-li-el2857

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Last updated: 2026-03-29