# Isabelle Li

> Software Engineer at Vanta

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Gusto
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023

### Supplemental Instructor - Intro to CS @ Wellesley College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineering Intern @ Blend
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Contributed to an internal authentication and authorization service which establishes a standard cookie-based authentication proxy for microservices to use
- Created an API endpoint which uploads certificates to a certificate management service to reduce P0’s related to expiring certificates
- Designed and generated team billing reports using queried data from Redshift to understand the AWS costs of each team

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Worked across the stack, touching upon front-end/UI, back-end business logic, and data schema
- Improved the app and user experience of Instagram Business Insights users 
- Optimized Relay queries to fetch data to populate the Insights page to enhance its loading performance
- Actively contributed to the design and product discussions of one of the user-facing projects 
- Used React Native, Relay, GraphQL, and Hack/PHP

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Sloan School of Management
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
- Developed Python scripts to parse through eviction court cases
- Used Google's Cloud Vision API to convert court documents to text
- Ran script on 100K cases

### Computer Science Tutor @ Wellesley College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Tutored students for CS 111 (Computer Programming and Problems Solving) for 8 hours per week
- Held weekly drop-in hours to assist students with homework assignments
- Participated in a weekly lab course and supported students with in-class assignments
- Attended weekly meetings with faculty
- Helped grade course homework
- Held peer mentor meetings to create a sense of community in the Computer Science department

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Wellesley College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Wellesley, MA
- Presented paper in conference
- First author on a paper submitted to the Blocks and Beyond workshop reporting on the preliminary results and analyses of procedures in App Inventor
- Worked with Professor Turbak and analyzed how users utilize procedures by using Python visualization libraries, such as pandas, matplotlib, seaborn, and plotly
- Performed exploratory data analysis on two groups of users: 10,000 randomly chosen users with around 30,000 projects and 46,000 prolific users that have created 20 or more projects with approximately 1.5 million projects
- App Inventor is a web-based blocks programming environment where users can create Android mobile applications. Procedures are a specific type of block in App Inventor that encapsulates the idea of procedural abstraction
- The overall goal of this project is to improve App Inventor and its associated pedagogy

### JavaScript Intern @ Uplift Together
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Remote
- Continued and improved my hackathon project with one teammate, supported by Uplift Together, a non-profit organization that fights against sexual violence in online communities through education and advocacy. 
- Designed a game using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to enable users to identify micro-aggressions and educate players in an interactive manner.
Coded mostly in JavaScript to create most of the gamification aspects.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Wellesley College
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Cross-registered Student in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### High School Degree
West Lafayette High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22