# James Li > Senior Software Engineer at Shipium Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesli Interested in robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and broad applications of said topics to a variety of fields (e.g. medicine, infrastructure, etc.)! Experienced tutor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Skilled in Computer Science and Mathematics. Enjoys working with robots and playing piano. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Shipium Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Software Developer @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Bellevue, Washington, United States Worked as an SDE I in the GSF Capacity Management and Flex Offer Marketplace and Optimization teams. * Amazon Restaurants India Instant Offers Launch: Coordinated multiple development teams (mobile, pricing, routing), business ops, and Indian site managers over the course of 3 months to launch a new gig delivery method for Amazon Restaurants across all India sites. This reduced Cost Per Delivery by 86% from 317 rupees to 45.3 rupees without degradation of customer delivery time or performance. * Low-Lead Offer Targeting and Assignment: Designed and developed an experimental low-lead offer targeting system using AWS to periodically assign personalized offers to Amazon Flex delivery drivers. This aimed to increase driver engagement and reduce immediate labor shortages whenever packages to be delivered in the next hour lacked drivers. * Instant Offers Acceptance Rate Machine Learning Improvements: Improved precision for a Machine Learning model for predicting driver acceptance probabilities for personalized offers from 61% to 72%. Created an automated model training pipeline by reducing training data processing memory and runtime through Pandas. * Late Order Notification Vending System: Assisted in designing and implementing an ETA and confidence vending system, including responsibilities like sending out notifications for late order deliveries. * Transportation Capacity Redshift Database Deprecation: Coordinated with developer and business analytics teams to audit and deprecate unused portions of a 3-year old AWS Redshift database inappropriately used by other teams. Cluster size and annual cost were reduced by 50% and annual ticket volume by 100%. * Sprint Process Improvements: Utilized new metrics and tools to our team's Sprint Process to increase daily stand-up accountability of long-standing issues and facilitate communication in addressing blockers while simultaneously reducing overall weekly meeting times. ### Software Developer Internship @ Amazon Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States Worked as an SDE Intern for the Last Mile Flex Scheduling team. * Delivery Scheduling Data Consistency: Analyzed production data and designed new data schema using AWS S3, Lambda, and ElastiCache to resolve data consistency issues in response to database updates. ### VPTL Tutor @ Stanford University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 Tutored peers in mathematics and computer science for a minimum of 5 hours each week for 30 weeks each year. ### Research Assistant @ Stanford University School of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Stanford, California, United States * Robotics Control: Worked under Oussama Khatib to develop a Java semantic parsing server integrated with a C++ operational space robot controller for flexible, natural control of a variety of robot arms. * Natural Language Processing: Implemented a Python Redis Publish/Subscribe script to communicate and process information from a modified Natural Language Processing Javascript web client. ### Lead Programmer @ FIRST Robotics Competition Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Lead Software sub-division of high school FRC team 3130, the ERRORs. Assisted in designing autonomous and manual control of robot and collaborated with team members for quick integration of new ideas and processes into code and debugging. Team won 1st at state and national level and 17th at world level. ## Education ### Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### High School East Ridge High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-li-4a3266122 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23