# Thomas Li > Computer Science @ Cornell Tech @ Northwestern University Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasli ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Rokt Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States ### Machine Learning Engineer @ Bain & Company Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States • For a Grocery Co., created a comprehensive database for inbound vendor flows that processed 30k+ purchase orders (PO) • Developed a PO processing pipeline that utilized OCR, cosine similarity, image classification, and GenAI techniques, which outperformed our benchmark competitor by 6% in accuracy • For a Bank Co., built a reusable analytics system for detailed interaction analytics powered by Presidio and Llama3.1 for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data preparation and other open-source LLM to derive actionable insights • Orchestrated a multi-level configurable pipeline to accelerate future analytic systems into production-ready capabilities ### Teaching Assistant @ Northwestern University Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Evanston, Illinois, United States CS310 Scalable Software Architectures CS321 Programming Languages CS339 Database Systems • Served as peer mentor for the class Scalable Software Architecture, Database Systems, and Programming Languages, providing weekly office hours, engaging on Piazza, and assisting with the grading of homework and quizzes ### Software Engineer @ Hologic, Inc. Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States • Created an intuitive web application leveraging AngularJS for the front end and Express with Node.js for the backend, featuring a RESTful API, deployed on a Windows Server IIS enhanced with iisnode for a robust hosting environment • Developed a high-volume image upload tool, achieving optimization for handling large 1-2 GB slide images, which boosted upload speeds by 80% and automated the extraction of image metadata to be systematically integrated into the database • Constructed a monitoring platform using WebSocket for the function to track upload history, upload status, and user data ### Software Engineer @ Keo Technology Group Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Shanghai, China • Developed interactive classroom features for the learning platform, including homework and quizzes using AngularJS • Optimized real-time data processing using Redis and integrated it with Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes to enhance scalability of the application, accelerating operational processes by 70% through strategic implementation techniques • Analyzed user engagements, interests, and profile data using A/B testing to provide insights for product-market fit initiatives ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science Cornell Tech ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics and Computer Science Northwestern University ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Boston College ### Middlesex School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thomas-li-0b8142224 --- Source: https://flows.cv/thomasli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/thomasli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13