# George Li

> Principal Engineer @ Roblox Storage / Queue

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgeli

Data Infrastructure veteran with over 28 years of experience in databases Oracle/MySQL,  Hadoop/HDFS,   Yarn, and Streaming platform Kafka.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Responsible for managing CockroachDB infrastructure. Key accomplishments: successfully implement/rollout the multiple-region active/active across 3 geographical regions. Design and implement a custom metrics framework that can define and capture any metrics in a yaml file based on any SQL and external commands (open source TBD). Identify the gap of CockroachDB's Point-In-Time-Recovery product offering, and design/implement a solution to enhance both the RPO & RTO(open source git repo: https://github.com/sql888/cockroach/tree/gli/add_restore_from_cdc_cmd).

Responsible for managing the Storage/Queue team's  Kafka infrastructure.  Successfully migrate from Confluent Kafka Cloud to the Roblox in-house Kafka infrastruture, saving the companies, millions of dollars.  Customize the Apach Kafka open source to fit the Roblox internal use-cases.

### Senior Software Engineer II and Tech Lead Manager @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Data Infra Engineering for Kafka (from Sept 2016 - Present)
- some open source Apache Kafka work for internal Uber use-cases.  e.g. Safely rollback on-going reassignments(KIP-236),   new dynamic configs:  replica.start.offset.strategy=latest,    leader.deprioritized.list (See KIP-491).

### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016
Staff Software Engineer for the Infra Database Team for the LinkedIn site facing core databases like members, profiles, connections. 
- Managing Oracle/MySQL databases
- Develop a pipeline (full & incremental)  to send Oracle and MySQL data to Hadoop HDFS/Hive.

### Member of Technical Staff  Database Administrator @ eBay, Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
Oracle & MySQL Database Administrator  for eBay Marketplace.

### Oracle Consultant @ Cisco Systems
Jan 1998 – Jan 2007

### Oracle DBA @ ADP
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005

### Oracle DBA @ CotageSoft, Inc.
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005

### Oracle DBA Consultant @ NetEPS.com (Concord EFS, now First Data)
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002

### Senior Software Engineer @ Concentric Network Corporation
Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 | Cupertino, California, United States
Concentric Network Corporation was an Internet Service Provider, one of  KPCB's startups.  The company was relocated from Michigan to Cupertino, CA and went IPO in 1997.   Major responsibility is to launch a new web-based billing system using Oracle database backend, and  Netscape's Live JavaScript.

### Programmer/Analyst @ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 | New York, New York, United States
Programmer Analyst for the Clinical Research Database using Oracle 6.0,  Oracle Forms and C language (Oracle OCI).


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Louisiana State University

### Bachelor in Computer Science
South China University of Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12