# Samuel Li

> Software Engineer | Duke ECE/CS

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samuelli1

Leading change in the community through service and computer science; designing new technology and carrying out data analysis to improve human health

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Taoshi
Jan 2025 – Present
Team Lead, PTN

### Software Engineer @ Taoshi
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Silicon Design Engineer @ AMD
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Design and verification of video encode and decode blocks

- Designed a point-to-point interface between video decode blocks, saving up to 100 clock cycles per transaction
- Managed 50 regression test suites across the team and generated daily reports analyzing failures
- Optimized Perforce deployment pipeline, caught 5 additional bugs over 2 months, decreased overall processing time from 8 hours to 2 hrs.
- Expanded test benches for SystemC and RTL code to increase code coverage by 5%

### Software Engineer @ Realtime Robotics, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Automatically evaluated the kinematic limits of very fast large robot arms

- Developed script to automate robot dynamics limit evaluation, decreasing cycle time from 1 hour to 30 seconds
- Optimized motion planning by tuning acceleration and jerk limits to improve task run times up to 5% compared to OEM teach pendant
- Created demo tasks that demonstrated dynamic collision free path generation to showcase Realtime’s value-add in industrial and collaborative robotics to customers

### Hardware Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Durham, North Carolina, United States
Designed and built several fully custom mechanical keyboards

- Worked with customers to design and develop 6 mechanical keyboards which went into various levels of production, from one-offs to group buys with hundreds of delivered units
- Contributed logic handling keyboard communication between multiple controllers to QMK firmware


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics
Duke University

### North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuellipk
- Website: https://samlli.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01