# Eric Li

> AI @ Bloomberg

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ericli1

Interests in machine learning and systems!

## Work Experience
### AI Software Engineer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2025 – Present
AI - Document Entity Linking

Low latency model inference, continuous training, NED/NER/SAL.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Bloomberg
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
• Worked in the Sell-Side External Market Making team
• Captured trade allocation FIX messages using C++ and SQL, enhancing a trade debugger for 101 users and reducing troubleshooting from 20 hours to minutes.
• Handled discrepant FIX messages from international exchanges to capture post-trade messages by buffering and sequencing them based on available FIX tags.
• Implemented multi-threading with Boost job pools to avoid blocking main business logic and developed a thread-safe cache for pre-processing trades.
• Resolved race conditions in multi-process database operations by implementing atomic database transactions

### IMC Prosperity 2 @ IMC Trading
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
• Placed 84th out of 10,000 teams
• Used Python to develop Regression models w/ XGBoost, Market-Making & Market-Taking, ETF Pairs Trading, Arbitrage, and Black-Scholes Options pricing algorithms

### Software Engineer @ Theta Data
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
• Engineer #2
• Developed C++ wrapper of REST API endpoints to improve ease of streaming of low-latency data.
• Developed real-time monitoring infrastructure of API service to track anomalies with Be�tter Stack and Java.
• Improved subscription conversion rate and user retention by 64% with Stripe checkout dashboards and JavaScript.

### Cornell Quant Fund Trading Competition @ Cornell Quant Fund
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
• Developed trading strategies to simulate trading systematic equities, derivatives, and high frequency blockchain 
• 6th place in Systematic Equities; 8th place in High Frequency Blockchain 
• Sponsored by Jane Street, SIG, HRT, DRW, Old Mission, Theta Data, databento

### Software Engineer Intern @ Bloomberg
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Worked in the Fixed Income Trading Infrastructure team
• Developed a real-time data analytics engine on trading infrastructure with C++ to ensure system integrity.
• Leveraged Apache Kafka and Redis for high throughput and low-latency ingestion of data streams.
• Utilized Apache Solr and AWS S3 for data querying and distributed file storage of Apache Parquet documents.
• Used Python w/ Apache Spark and Pandas to develop time-aggregate snapshots of activity on infrastructure.
• Provided granularity into Fixed Income trade events on infrastructure without disturbing production systems.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Dr. Anita Raja's Distributed AI (DAIR) Lab @ Hunter College
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Researching the Dynamic Traffic Assignment Problem (TAP) to optimize traffic flow, cost, and volume of a distributed network.
• Utilizing Spectral Clustering, Transition Matrices, and Stationary Distributions to converge traffic flow to a system optimal distribution.

### Quantitative Methods Workshop @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• One of 6 students selected to attend week-long, intensive workshop hosted by MIT Department of Biology and MIT Brain and Cognitive Science departments.
• Learned about general neuroscience and cortical regions, Genomics, EEG signal processing with machine learning, and applying fourier transforms to isolate low resolution protein structures from CryoEM

### Software Engineer Intern - Clean Energy @ Mobileware Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Engineer #3
• Dockerized a Node.js program that parses CSV data to a MongoDB collection to improve consistency and portability of production infrastructure. 
• Implemented a cron-scheduled Twitter bot that tweets carbon emission data from Firebase.
• Developed a MERN stack webapp dashboard that analyzes Twitter streams with a Tensorflow.js Sentiment Analysis model.
• Converted Node.js REST API infrastructure to GraphQL framework with an Apollo webserver for improved flexibility of production queries and mutations.
• Used Turf.js geometry buffers with Google Directions API and Leaflet maps to form polygon
paths to perform geospatial queries in MongoDB.

### Head Of Logistics @ CUNY Hackathon @ CUNY Startups
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Frontend Developer @ Develop for Good
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
• Pangolin Wildlife Conservation: A West Nigerian nonprofit focused on raising awareness of the endangered Pangolin species.
• Constructed a mobile compatible frontend using React.js and Typescript. 
• Developed a content management system using Javascript’s fetch API to retrieve JSON data.  
• Built React Components and customized Ant Design elements according to the design team’s Figma specifications.

### Mentee @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
• Selected to participate as a Mentee for Microsoft Tech Resilience, a program geared towards first-year Computer Science students.
• Gained industry mentorship experience from current Microsoft Software Engineers to develop my soft, behavioral, and communicative skills.
• Introduced to the importance of self-efficacy, growth mindsets, and different strategies to tackle potential challenges in a Software Engineering career.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Hunter College

### Xavier High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30