# Ruiwen Li

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

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

Tech Lead, iOS engineer @ Meta

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2026 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Stories 
Notes

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
Notes
GenAI Integration on Facebook App 
Messaging Experiences

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Messaging Experiences
Top fans projects for Creators
Live Audio Room iOS

### Research Assistant @ Santa Clara University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara
•	Built a mock Virtual Machine allocation system to test the efficiency of the Ant Colony 	Optimization algorithm
•	Speaker at 2018 ICNC conference for the publication 
•	Conducted research in cloud computing and assisted Professor in equipment management 
•	Installed operation systems in both VirtualBox and VMWare 
•	Hosted websites and databases in virtual disks

### Technology R&D Analyst @ Accenture
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Automated hyper-parameter optimization process for data scientists using AutoML
* Applied transfer learning and built augmented neural networks on existing pre-trained ML models
* Containerized the individual functionalities and deployed them on AWS

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park
* Developed and maintained the machine learning model debugger for search ranking team
* Communicated with clients for feedbacks and new feature suggestions
* Improved user experience on the frontend using Hack/PHP
* Improved the usability of the model debugger by fixing the backend using C++ 
* Increased the usage of the model debugger by more than 50%
* Developed a feature analyzer for machine learning models on the frontend with React

### Software Engineer Intern @ Kohl's
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | United States
•	Developed and validated 5+ client APIs using GraphQL
•	Built a GraphQL schema generator that automatically defines types based on existing class   	definitions and attributes
•	Replaced old REST services to avoid data over-fetching and under-fetching 
•	Reconstructed a new search system for filtering data in MongoDB with 2000+ lines of code, 	reduced runtime by 50%

### Machine Learning Researcher (Intern) @ Autodesk
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai City, China
•	Researched in MNIST, object detection, and facial recognition with TensorFlow framework
•	 Rebuilt the data training model for facial recognition and improved accuracy by 30%

### Software Engineer Remote Intern @ CNSPEC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai City, China
•	Developed a facial motion detection system for staff identification and enhanced company’s 	security
•	Built an interface for clients to update building information for Shanghai Tower


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Engineering
Santa Clara University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Mercy High School, San Francisco
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### San Francisco Waldorf School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22