# Samuel Li > SWE Engineer @ Rhombus | CS @ UC Davis Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samuelli ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Rhombus Jan 2025 – Present | Sacramento, CA • Developing a secure and comprehensive cloud-based security system for customers that require 24/7 surveillance through cameras, sensors, and access-controlled doors through a web-based security console. • Currently developing an integrated chatbot powered by LLMs, tooling, and extremely large datasets. Working the full stack on web frontend, a NodeJS micro-service, and a backend managing persistence and call queues. • Pioneered company-wide push alongside designers to overhaul our web console to provide a more seamless and responsive user experience through modern design philosophies and UX best practices. • Implemented features such as viewing and managing cameras, customizable dashboards, fluid and responsive layouts, effective animations and transitions, and a powerful platform-wide search. • Working with Typescript and React on the frontend, and NodeJS, Java, and AWS services on the backend. ### Software Engineer @ Rhombus Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Sacramento, California, United States • Currently on the forefront of overhauling the current console and integrating modern design philosophies and providing a more seamless and responsive user experience. • Independently developed a fully-featured and operational next generation console with heavy emphasis on UI/UX and working closely with a designer. • Explored ways to make features feel intuitive and responsive to the user and overall elevate the console experience. • Implementing features such as viewing and managing cameras, customizable dashboards, fluid and responsive layouts, effective animations and transitions, and a powerful platform-wide search. • Focused on developing complex and dynamic state that is performant to the user and simultaneously easy for other developers to expand on. ### Software Intern @ Rhombus Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Sacramento, California, United States • Developed a new generation responsive web console for managing and viewing cameras and various security devices with a heavy emphasis on improved UI/UX. • Explored new technologies such as Vite JS, Tailwind CSS, and other modern JavaScript tools and potential migration. • Collaborated with engineers and designers. • Worked with mostly TypeScript and React. ### Lead Developer @ Kapi Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Davis, California • Created a social platform for historically underrepresented gamers to interact and socialize more easily. • Collaborated with a team of designers and software developers. • Focused on developing a backend API with authentication and real-time messaging. • Coordinated front-end developers by delegating work and providing advice. • Utilized MongoDB, NextJS, Ktor, WebSockets, ReactJS, and TypeScript. ### Developer @ CodeLab Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Davis, California, United States • Developed mobile app pages with Dart and Flutter for Golf Guru with dynamic content from live data. • Worked with Noteable to design and develop a Slack integration application to expand their product, utilizing common authentication practices and Deno and TypeScript. • Closely interacted with designers through Figma to implement an intuitive user experience and meet project goals. • Applied industry tools such as Git, RESTful APIs, and communication and organization through Slack and Jira. ### Frontend Developer @ 5L2F MINISTRY TO CHRIST Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States • Used the NextJS framework and React to develop a simple and efficient video streaming website. • Maintained a narrow focus on performance on the client and over the network due to potential deficiencies in international viewers. • Developed an admin console for managing videos on the site, changing video descriptions and modifying playlists. • Allows viewers easy access to videos globally and without restrictions. • Worked with JavaScript and GoLang. ### Software Intern @ TBCASoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | United States • Developed Android applications for a blockchain-based payment system and identity system. • Created and maintained multiple web management consoles for multiple products, involving user management, creating and removing schemas and definitions, displaying metrics and data, and more. • Designed and developed a web application to present live blockchain data in a human-readable form. • Developed a test harness to stress distributed systems by using Kafka and GoLang to inject and consume data. • Built multiple online web e-commerce storefronts and payment interfaces for presenting the company product. • Over 70k lines of code committed to various GitHub repositories. • Worked with JavaScript, React, Java, and GoLang. ### FRC Robotics Software @ Prospect Robotics Gear Heads Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Saratoga, California, United States • Spearheaded the development of software for autonomous driving and vision targeting. • Maintained software for all robotic subsystems, utilizing PID control and reading and using data from sensors. • Constructed and managed website for robotics team (team2813.com). • Assisted in design (CAD modeling), hardware, and electrical tasks during build season. • Worked with Java, Python, and JavaScript ### Volunteer Teacher @ WCEO Connexpedition Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Taipei City, Taiwan • Went through five months of leadership training, regarding teaching methods and understanding the material and curriculum. • Taught as a volunteer teacher at a Taiwanese middle school for two weeks during the summer. • Prepared lesson plans every night for the next day, which includes gathering required materials and planning out a tentative schedule and camp-wide events. • Taught middle school children through the curriculum and guided them through fun activities, making sure they can feel excited about being at the summer camp. • Took photos during class and events and produced an ending ceremony video recapping the experiences and memories made during camp. • Continued online English courses for six months after summer camp through Zoom. ### Software Intern @ Telenav Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, California, United States • Developed a project to manage Dropbox company users and identify abnormal activities (AngularJS and Flask) • Created the front-end for APM, an application monitoring management application to manage processes of a monitoring system. • Over time, worked with JavaScript (AngularJS and React JSX), Python, HTML, and CSS. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of California, Davis Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 ### Prospect High School Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-li-067a9b134 --- Source: https://flows.cv/samuelli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samuelli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20