# Zheng Bruce Li > Engineer, building stuff Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zhengbruceli I am a serial entrepreneur who love to build disruptive products in software, AI, and telecommunication. Seasoned technologist by training, I am equally fluent at developing business, forging partnership, and envisioning the grand strategy. My latest hobby is using AI to build more software. I am a founding researcher for GPTDAO since 2022, a pioneering AI community in SF Bay area. I have published more than 20 AI tutorials on hackernoon as well as frequently speaker at GPTDAO events. I was also the editorial coordinator for the inaugural GenAI Summit Silicon Valley 2023. As co-founder of NKN.org, our team built the world’s largest decentralized communication network with up to 140,000 servers in 50+ countries and regions globally. My main responsibilities are commercial partnership, product operations, and corporate development. Through my International leadership roles with Google and Nokia in US, Europe, and APAC over past 24 years, I have managed venture projects in a global multi-site multi-lingual setup. ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ TBD Jan 2026 – Present | SF Bay Area ### Founding AI Researcher, Advisor @ UnifAI Network Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area - Co-Founding AI benchmarking project and Virtual World for AI Agent project - AI Researcher for agentic AI infrastructure ### Founding AI Researcher @ GPTDAO Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area - Speaker for online and in-person AI education program, tech talks, demos, and workshops - Editorial coordinator for 1st GenAI Summit Silicon Valley 2023 - Incubate AI first products and projects ### Co-Founder, Co-CEO @ NKN.ORG Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area NKN, or New Kind of Network, intend to use blockchain technology and business model to change the telecommunication industry. My role as co-founder will primarily oversee the strategy and business side of house, to spur adoption and growth by working with many ecosystem partners. Our slogan sums up our fundamental goal quite well “Free the bits, rebuild the Internet we always wanted”. To break down into more specific goals, we want to - Connect anyone at anyplace - Secure net neutrality from network layer - Make the Internet always open and scalable - Reward resource sharing and improve connectivity for everyone - Build the world’s largest Internet bandwidth exchange ### Technical Program Manager, Project Fi @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California Technical program management for eSIM, as well as OEM phones for Project Fi ### Software Engineering Manager @ Nokia Bell Labs Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California Build the future X communication platform that unifies digital existence and allows intuitive, contextual interaction with People, Places, Things & Services. I’m the co-product owner, and leads a team of 10 talented software developers. - Built a hyper-scale messaging platform: AWS, Docker, SQS/CMB, mongoDB, websocket, bot SDK for IoT devices @ millisecond latency - Built an iOS app using swift & Realm; designed unique 3D ready user interface exploring AR/VR/MR capabilities - Integrated Bell Lab’s contextual search engine for augmented intelligence - Demo'd an early version of the app with bots during Mobile World Congress Feb 2017, and are working our way towards internal beta trial. ### Global Business Development Manager @ Nokia Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA Develop new technical and business solutions with innovative companies in radio & backhaul, hyper scale cloud, and big data analytic domains. Feed pipeline for partnering, equity investment, and M&A. In addition, I was the Head of Alliance for NSN’s strategic partner Cisco, EMC, and SAP. - 100M+ revenue impact: Cisco, EMC, SAP alliances - Screened 100+ companies, 60+ companies are currently active in various stages of our pipeline for partnering, equity investment, or M&A. - Created new partnership with a 3G/4G small cell vendor to enable a $40M+ customer sales in Americas. OEM contract done in 2 months. - Signed MoU with Telecom Italia on joint scouting of technology companies; signed MoU with Artemis for pCell technology collaboration. - Drive multiple Proof of Concept projects with innovative real-time big data analytic company and innovative 5G radio company. ### Founder, PM and TPM: Lumina 4G LTE small cells @ Nokia Siemens Networks (Mountain View, CA) Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area Develop an outdoor 4G LTE small cell with embedded wireless backhaul for mobile data use in dense urban deployment. Overall responsibility equivalent to a combination of founder, architect, product manager, and project manager. - Started from a technical concept, secured internal funding (>5M EUR over 4 years), built up team of up to 30 engineers (including subcontractors) - Built two versions of hardware prototypes: industrial design won Japanese G-MARK award, exhibition in Mobile World Congress 2011 Barcelona - IPR creation: personally authored one patent. From project: 11 invention reports, 2 filed for patent, 9 archive. - Won early support from Tier-1 pan-European operator: signed research co-operation agreement and trial contract (customer paid). - Technology and customer field trial transferred to business product line, which in turn successfully completed the trial during 2012. ### Co-Founder, PM & TPM: WiMetro Mesh WiFi @ Nokia Siemens Networks (Mountain View, CA) Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco Bay Area Develop an outdoor mesh WiFi product from scratch, utilizing cutting edge 3-sector industrial design, 802.11n chipset and patented antenna technology. Overall responsibility equivalent to a combination of co-founder, architect, product manager, and project manager. - Managing 2.5 Million EUR total project budget for personnel, subcontracting, purchasing, travel, and training costs. - Leading 24 people across 3 continents: California, Beijing, China, Stockholm Sweden and Helsinki Finland. - Industrial design innovation: patented 3-sector thermal design pre-dates Apple Mac Pro (2014) by 7 years (EU patent EP2113963 A1) - IPR creation: personally authored two patents. From project: 19 invention reports, 11 filed for patent. ### System Architect: various roles & projects @ Nokia Siemens Networks (Mountain View, CA) Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 | Espoo, Finland July'2003-April'2005: Core Products platform strategy & implementation at Nokia Networks Create core networks platform strategy and roadmap across whole product portfolio. Strategic alliance and technology due diligence with IT partners (IBM, SUN, HP, Fujitsu-Siemens). Jul’2002-Mar’2003: New Service-aware intelligent edge router development  System Architect. Distill requirements, design architecture, and evaluate implementation options for IP Quality of Service, Performance Enhancing Proxy, Wireless LAN access, service awareness and content-aware charging. Oct’2000-Jul’2003: End-2-end system technology roadmap management  Senior system specialist. Represent division to company-wide System Functionality Teams in Quality of Service and IP Transport; liaison to all 5 Nokia NET platforms; steer research projects in these areas. May’2000-Dec’2000: CDMA2000 and GPRS/3G inter-working solution  System Specialist, project leader. “Wireless Gateway” solution development for CDMA2000 radio and GPRS core interworking: before Qualcomm’s GSM1x. System marketing to Korean & US carriers, technical negotiation with Samsung; participated in RFQ response for KDDI. ### Software Engineer @ Nortel Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 Technical prime of feature development for CDMA2000 radio network management software suite, plus solving customer service request as last-line support. ## Education ### Master of Engineering in Telecommunication Engineering The Australian National University ### Master of Engineering in Automatic Control Shanghai Jiao Tong University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zbruceli - Portfolio: https://twitter.com/zbruceli - Portfolio: https://medium.com/@z.bruce.li --- Source: https://flows.cv/zhengbruceli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zhengbruceli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11