# Steven Li

> Software Engineer at Box

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stevenli1

Always looking for ways to improve my career

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2024 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Generative AI Gateway
- A gateway infrastructure to streamline the usage and management of various large language model (LLM) within Linkedin
- Developed token and request rate limiting capability for managing access to LLMs hosted on cloud services such as Azure OpenAI Platform

Data Conflation Platform 
- An infrastructure platform that enables third party enterprise data conflation with LinkedIn
- Developed an encrypted Spark-based data conflation platform, enabling third-party applications to securely combine their encrypted or hashed data with LinkedIn's dataset
- Designed and developed robust APIs and mechanisms for application developers to efficiently access up-to-date data from vast datasets
- Enhanced platform availability and implemented disaster recovery strategies by designing and developing failover infrastructures utilizing Azure resources

Offline Index for Linkedin Feed 
- Enables offline LinkedIn feed data indexing
- Collaboratively designed offline feed ingestion enhancements to increase the agility of LinkedIn's user feed infrastructure

### Software Engineer II @ Sumo Logic
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Redwood City, California, United States
Designed A real time monitoring system where user is able to monitor their metrics and logs data and be notified when abnormality occurs

### Software Engineer I @ Sumo Logic
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City

### Software Engineer Intern @ Sumo Logic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City, California
- Designed and created data platform for data analysis by automatically collecting metadata from user log reports
- Processed the collected metadata to generate benchmark analysis of user applications.
- Processed the collected metadata to generate benchmark analysis of user applications.

### Software Engineer @ AdHawk Microsystems
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kitchener, Canada Area
- Developed automated optical inspection systems using computer vision (OpenCV) to inspect microelectromechanical systems for eye tracking
- Created eye tracker 3D models with OpenCV, Zemax, Python and MATLAB to simulate eye tracking under different environments

### Bioinformatics Software Developer @ University Health Network
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Implemented OpenID Connect (OIDC) architecture to secure research and patient data at UHN
• Designed authentication models that provide secure access to cancer research data over multiple Canadian health institutes (UHN, Sick Kids, BC Cancer Agency, McGill University, etc.)
• Developed a remote research analysis tool chain using Node.js, GA4GH, Funnel and Docker containers

### Software Engineering and Research Assistant @ Tactual Labs Co.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Developed computer vision application to track touch device latency using C++ and OpenCV library
• Designed and implemented cross platform Qt UI for the computer vision application
• Developed full stack Node.js server with Angular2 for latency data visualization

### Software Engineer @ Autodesk
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Developed full stack Node.js server for a crowd-sourced fabrication research project (HRI Exhibit) at Autodesk University 2015
• Established communication pipelines between users and UR2 robotic arms through IOT devices (iWatch, Alike LED)
• Generated and managed user activity data using PostgreSQL for further research study
• Co-authored and published the research project, Crowdsourced Fabrication, to UIST 2016 and
ACM.

### JVM Quality Assurance Engineering @ IBM Canada
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Markham, Ontario, Canada
• Developed Node.JS applications to execute end to end testing for new IBM Node. builds
• Improved testing efficiency through developing Python and Shell Script automations
• Implemented Mozilla i18n language localizations for the team Node.JS website
• Presented side project to Scotia Bank Mobile Team and IBM CAS Research Workshop


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29