Kevin Li

Kevin Li

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Co-Founder & CEO
California, United States

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  • Goldsky
    Co-Founder & CEO
    Goldsky
    Oct 2021 - Current (4 years 10 months)
    The instant data platform for onchain finance. We're hiring: https://goldsky.com/careers
  • X
    Engineering Manager
    X
    May 2021 - Oct 2021 (6 months)
    •  Supported an elite team building matcha.xyz, one of the first decentralized exchanges. • Helped drive 10x growth in daily active traders in < 3 months. • Championed and built out a data-driven culture across engineering.
  • Facebook
    Engineering
    Facebook
    May 2018 - May 2021 (3 years 1 month)
    •  Part of Web Speed - helped teams across Facebook build fast & reliable systems. • Bootstrapped a side project into a team of 5 building a product adopted by Ads Manager, Diffs (code review), and 50+ other teams. Reduced downtime for customers by 40%.
  • Google
    Engineering
    Google
    Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 (5 months)
    •  Built YouTube TV's desktop video player. • Left to wander the metaverse.
  • Heap  by Contentsquare
    Engineering Lead
    Heap by Contentsquare
    Jun 2014 - Jul 2016 (2 years 2 months)
    Heap is a unicorn analytics startup (YC W13). •  Led frontend engineering - dashboard & core product. •  Ran engineering onsites and scaled early team as we grew from 5 people. • Wrote content for branding - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10420241
  • Haugen Software
    Software Engineer
    Haugen Software
    Feb 2014 - May 2014 (4 months)
    • Hire #1, wore a lot of hats.
  • Hulu
    Software Engineer
    Hulu
    May 2012 - Jan 2014 (1 year 9 months)
    •  Led ads team in designing and building out several distributed, fault-tolerant systems for the core ingest & publish pipeline. Improved time-to-failure from days to weeks. • Founded team focus on observability - set up system metrics, aggregated logging, automated machine configuration, deployment, and build tooling.
  • University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    CS 242 Teaching Assistant
    University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Jan 2012 - May 2012 (5 months)
    •  Helped teach a class on practical code design, style, and quality.
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  • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
    Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
    Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
  • University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    Bachelor's, Computer Science (dropped out)
    University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
    • SAT: 800/800/800, ACT: 36/36/36/36, PSAT: 80/80/80, EXPLORE: 25/25/25/25 • 2nd place @ Facebook Hackathon / UIUC Press: https://lifehacker.com/5694348/aethyr-downloads-music-from-shared-itunes-libraries
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