# Lori Li

> Digital Health @ Kodiak Science | Software Engineer | CMU SV 24', Waseda 23', SAS 19'

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lorili

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Kodiak Sciences
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Huawei
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Shanghai, China
Redesigned video caching algorithm using C++ to resolving playback judder for non-linearly stored video content, replaced manual memory allocation with smart pointers, reducing leaks and improving reliability. 
Collaborated with team members to conduct performance testing and fine-tune caching strategies, observing a 40% reduction in video playback latency

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | California, United States
- Implemented a fault tolerant and self-healing Saga transaction microservices that uses HTTP/RESTful APIs to communciate between services.
- Designed and developed a language-agnostic testing framework for the Saga transaction coordinator that utilizes API calls and service hooks to verifying program correctness. The framework is integrated in a lab assginment that challenges student to develop a complete microservice and learn the relevant topics.
- Deployed a online homework auto-grading platform to the cloud with Docker compose, significantly lifted TA workload and provided students with quick feedbacks.

### Artificial Intelligence Developer @ 上海安维尔信息科技股份有限公司
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
Led efforts in enhancing accuracy of the Person Re-Identification (Re-ID) model (project in Python with PyTorch) by researching and combining various established algorithms and tricks. 
Through innovative approaches, model accuracy is improved from 95% to 98%, without extra inference cost.
Collected of datasets essential for training the Re-ID model by taking initiative to set up cameras and gathering data from company employees, ensured availability of high-quality data for project."

### Software Engineer @ Luogu Network Technology Co. Ltd.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Tokyo, Japan
"Engineered Symfony(PHP)-based web forum backend with OAuth2 login, permission groups, and tags. 
Replaced outdated forum, enhanced permission control, code maintainability, and achieved 50%+ performance boost.
Developed async web crawler, allowing users to access coding contest information across websites; used Redis for data caching, and allowed multi-user access. Daily active users increased around 5%."

### Software Engineer @ Semidrive Semiconductor 芯驰科技
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Shanghai, China
"Created an automatic testing platform in Python to test Android UI, deployed on CI.
Led test team to shift from manual testing to automated testing platform, saving 2+ hours daily for testers. Spotted crucial bugs multiple times.
Maintained the Jenkins continuous integration system, monitor build systems, configurations, and release of versions.
Created a web dashboard base on the Django framework. Dashboard presents stats & info from Bugzilla, Jenkins, Gerrit, etc. Saving 15 minutes everyday for project manager."


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Communication Engineering
Waseda University

### Shanghai American School

### Shanghai High School International Division


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lorilandly
- GitHub: https://github.com/Lorilandly

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Last updated: 2026-04-10