# Xiang (Shawn) Li

> Machine Learning Software Engineer @ JPMorgan Chase | Angel Investor | VC Scout | Mentor & Alumni @ CMU INI

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/xiangshawnli

Xiang is a Machine Learning Engineer in building scalable AI/ML applications. Xiang has 4.5 years of experience in end-to-end Large Language Model (LLM) lifecycle, from system design to MLOps and serving. Xiang is a alumni of Carnegie Mellon University.

During Xiang’s role at JPMorgan Chase as a Machine Learning Software Engineer, Xiang led and built GenAI and CI (Continuous Integration) solutions at scale from scratch. Xiang is proven in Kubernetes, AWS, IAM, Monitoring, and API Design.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ JPMorganChase
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
💭 Job duties were orthogonal by design to fit into a human scope, like the SWE/SRE split. Boundaries now dissipate and new species emerge. Software Engineering now works like an Engineer Manager with a spawn of agents, to define problems, rubrics, and validations. I want to be informed to be a Luddite or not. I want to learn, invest, build, and imagine life with agents.

🥰 I host Claude Code router/ KV cache/ knowledge base with Anthropic on AWS, and many more.
👉 Ping me if you were also interested in Stanford CS336, CS25, CS153.

### Software Engineer III, Senior @ JPMorganChase
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Glasgow
🛠️ * Building plugin/ CLI/ API/ IDE to enable developers with AI chat/ edit/ agent modes
🪜 * Procuring GenAI models (OpenAPI GPT 4 series, Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet, open-weights)
🧤 * Presenting best practices with prompt engineering, RAG, agentic AI, MCP, KV cache, and so on

### Software Engineer II, Associate @ JPMorganChase
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, CA
Delivering cloud-native continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) solutions @ Enterprise Toolchain.

### Angel Investor @ Unknown
Jan 2024 – Present
🎁 Portfolio: W by Jake Paul (Consumer, Series A), Anthropic (AI, Series E+), SpaceX (Tech, Pre-IPO)…
👋 Building something cool? Happy to connect and let me buy you a coffee.
☕️ hello@shawnxli.com

### Venture Scout @ UpHonest Capital
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
🕊️ Scouting early-stage startups for fundraising support.
👋 Building something cool? Happy to connect and let me buy you a coffee.
☕️ hello@shawnxli.com

### Mentor @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
🤝 Coaching 3-4 new candidates every semester for early career development, voluntarily @ CMUnivese

### Security Engineer Intern @ Rakuten
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
2019 Rakuten Cyber Security Bootcamp @ Cyber Security Defense Department.

### Research Intern @ Tongji University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai City
@ Intelligent Big Data and Visualization Lab (iDVx Lab), Supervised by Prof. Nan Cao

Gained hands-on experience in data visualization, data processing, precision medicine and academic research.

### Internal Development Engineer Intern @ MioTech
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai, China
Designed and implemented DevOps workflow, LDAP authentication and CI/CD infrastructure.

### Independent Developer @ Tezign 特赞
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai City
Designer and Developer @ sheji.ai (“sheji” means Design in Chinese phonetic alphabet)
Developed the landing page and case study panel of 2018 Design A.I. Report for millions of page visits. Contributor to the 2019 version.

### Software Development Intern @ Activision
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai, China
Developed backend and database service for real-time global multi-user game titles like Call of Duty at team @ Demonware.net.

### Software Development Engineer in Testing Intern @ Tezign 特赞
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai City, China
Integrated unit/ integration test automation framework with Jenkins CI.

### Research Assistant Intern @ Tongji University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai, China
@ Design and Artificial Intelligence Lab (D&AI Lab).

Cofounded by Tongji University and Tezign Information Technology, Design and Artificial Intelligence Lab dedicates to the application of interdisciplinary research in data, algorithms, network, artificial intelligence and design. Through cultivating PhD and Master students into next generation talents in design and creative fields, and cooperating with established and start-up tech companies, D&AI Lab stimulates the conversion and cooperation between Industry, Study, Research and Innovation.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Information Technology - Information Security
Carnegie Mellon University

### Master of Science - MS in Information Technology - Information Security
Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute

### Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
Tongji University

### Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10