# Lusha Li

> TikTok - Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lushali

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2023 – Present | San Jose, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Houzz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
(JS, PHP, AWS, Node.js, Java, Pro Ads[Monetization] & SEO)
• Developed and owned backend services for large-scale user-facing web applications
• Maintained and enhanced online Ads system with multi-billion dollar revenue
• Worked with cross-functional teams to help professionals advertise their business, implemented new web components, and conducted A/B Tests for better ads serving
• Elevated the Leads Quality through spam-level analysis utilizing Message Queue(MQ) and the Data Warehouse / Big Data
• Identified performance improvement opportunities and cut the runtime by half through Solr and Ads server(Java) adjustments, leading to 5% retention increment
• Built and guided several end-to-end internal tools, starting from the system and data (MySQL) design docs, service platform(Thrift & PHP) to test automations; 3+ web teams benefited from these tools
• Mentored peers in tasks and career growth

### Software Engineer @ Sophon Tech
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
(JS, Go, Gorilla, AWS, React, Redux, GA, Material UI, Antd)
• Designed and built a React/Redux web application to monitor trading activities
• Worked in a fast-paced, agile environment consisting of a cross-functional team implementing and deploying user email system with internationalization
• Created detailed technical designs, code, and unit tests for custom applications and data flows in the context of projects, releases, and production support
• Proactively innovated solutions to improve the security of RESTful APIs for KYC approval and MFA, provided technical estimates for user stories, articulated any technical risks and assumptions
• Performed code reviews and debugging, ensured code quality and reliability through unit and integration tests
• Established productive working relationships and maintained effective communications with teammates, clients, and end-users

### Research Assistant @ University of California San Diego
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
Statistical Visual Computational Laboratory (SVCL), Advisor: Nuno Vasconcelos 
Image Collection with AR.Drone — Python, Computer Vision
• Integrated the AR.Drone’s driver and OpenCV through Robot Operating System Framework to automate the image collection
• Designed classes and objects for image collection under category of ImageNet and ModelNet
• Utilized ResNet, AlexNet and VGG to run experiments on dataset, ImageNet and ModelNet
• Participated in design discussions and review sessions with team members, submitted paper to European Conference on Computer Vision in March 2018

### Research Assistant @ University of California San Diego
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0021
Early Research Scholar Program (selective), Advisor: Andrew B. Kahng 
Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesizer — Python
• Decreased the size of databases using Set Cover and the concept of domain-specific synthesis
• Devised and Implemented tags to organize the databases based on unit-selection synthesis
• Applied Dynamic Programming to efficiently retrieve the data and achieve high naturalness
• Incorporated digital processing to better improve output quality
• Identified and suggested improvements in methods, planed project of limited duration and scope, troubleshot when erroneous or unexpected results occurred


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lusha-li-475550a5

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Last updated: 2026-03-29