# Jayleen Li > Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jayleen In my free time I like to design 3D printed models and make 3D things. πŸ€“ Website: https://jayleenli.github.io/ Art Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JayleenLi ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Improved internal employee experience by 24.23% by adding 70+ turtle emojis to slack, driving real impact for thousands of employees worldwide. ### Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States Prisma Access Insights Backend Built microservices for Prisma Access Insights, a data analytics platform for PANW's cloud firewall products. --------------------- Prisma Access Backend Developed Prisma Access Cloud backend to manage cloud firewalls and protect cloud workloads. ### Undergraduate Learning Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Course: CS148, Software Development Practices & Project Was given the opportunity to teach one lecture on web application development during the course. Hosted office hours and sections between 6 different student project groups. Concurrently wrote a lab assignment for CS156 on code coverage and mutation testing in Java Spring Boot + Gradescope. [This was part of a independent research for another professor] Student project tech stacks ranged from: Python, Flask, React, JavaScript, MongoDB, Firebase/firestore, Springboot Java. ### Undergraduate Learning Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Course: CS156, Advanced Applications Programming Mentored undergraduates on Java/Spring Boot development and on legacy React+Ruby on Rails projects. ### Co-director/Sponsorship Team Lead @ SB Hacks Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Santa Barbara, California, United States Co-director to the 17 person organizing team and lead sponsor outreach for the 6 person sponsorship sub-team. Raised $22k+ for virtual SB Hacks VII (350+ person hackathon). Taught and created the following SB Hacks workshops: "Intro to Web Apps", "Intro to Hackathons", "Intro to APIs" and "Intro to HTML/CSS/JavaScript" for university students. Hosted the opening and closing ceremonies for SB Hacks VII and delegated the marketing, judging, and logistics of the hackathon. You can find links to the workshops here: https://github.com/sbhacks-org If you are interested in a partnership with SB Hacks, please reach out to sponsors@sbhacks.com! ### Hackathon Organizer @ SB Hacks Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Barbara, California, United States One of the 8 organizers for SB Hacks, UCSB's annual 400+ person hackathon. Reached out to companies and organizations to build and maintain relationships and raised $40k+ in monetary sponsorship. Planned the workshops, schedule, and hacker experience for SB Hacks VI. Led the judging logistics process. Developed some assets on the website. (https://www.sbhacks.com/) ### Full Stack Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco Meraki Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States MX Dashboard Team Created cellular packet usage trackers and dashboards for Meraki Cellular Gateways. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Palo Alto Networks Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States Prisma Access Backend Infrastructure Built a distributed framework to run diagnostic commands and collect system information on cloud firewalls. Placed 2nd out of 50+ teams at PANW’s company-wide internal hackathon. ### Software Engineering Intern @ ADTRAN Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Barbara, California Area Architected a Python Flask cloud application for version controlled router manifest files. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Looker Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz, California Developed a customized URL system for Looker’s data analytic dashboards. Created a blueprint Android version of Looker at an internal hackathon. Looker was officially acquired by Google in Feb 2020. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Barbara, California Area Four Eyes Lab at UCSB Project: Deep Learning on Electroencephalograms (EEG) to Predict Human Action (published to CHI 2020). Realized I am not well suited for research, but I got to try it! ### Software Development Intern @ SmartRG, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California Developed automated language localization for SmartRG's Router Interface in 20+ new languages, helping expand to South American and Asian markets. Established a network packet interface to monitor real-time Wifi health. ### Food Service Clerk @ Market Street Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Coppell, Texas ## Education ### Bachelor of Science with College of Engineering Honors in Computer Science UC Santa Barbara ### Coppell High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jayleen-li - Portfolio: http://jayleenli.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/jayleen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jayleen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29