About

Clare Li is a skilled software engineer with over 9 years of industry experience in development roles for consumer-oriented software, web servers, microservices, and network equipment. In addition, she has 2 years of academic experience in prestigious research groups in the field of wireless communications, data networking, mobility, and resource management procedures. Clare is highly proficient in coding skills such as Python, C++, C#, Shell script, and SQL. She has solid expertise in multi-tiered systems, databases, data structures, and algorithms, and is experienced with object-oriented design and distributed, asynchronous event-based systems. Clare is familiar with ASP.NET Core, relational and non-relational databases, and is proficient in developing RESTful APIs. She has hands-on experience in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker containers, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Clare has worked in both Agile and Waterfall environments, and has strong problem-solving and analytical abilities. She has excellent communication and team working skills, developed by playing the Scrum Master role and working closely with product owners, QA, and stakeholders, to manage the process and communicate problem impacts. Clare is currently a Software Engineer at Square. In her previous role as a Platform Developer at Skywatch, she developed a highly scalable platform that aggregates satellite imagery and provides an easy-access RESTful API to customers powered by event-driven microservices using AWS stack and Python. She also contributed to architectural roadmap generation and new feature idea gathering. In her role as a Software Development Engineer at McAfee, Clare designed and implemented key areas of an asynchronous ASP.NET Core web application and RESTful API using C# and Entity Framework, utilizing Microsoft SQL Server and Redis. She also led the development of a web-based Artificial Intelligence Tier I customer support system from front-end presentation to back-end web server using ASP.NET SignalR, HTML, and JavaScript. Clare holds a Master of Applied Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. She has a strong tech stack that includes AWS, SQL, Terraform, Microservices, dotNET, Python, Web, ASP.NET, Kubernetes, Azure, QA, Docker, Research Scientist, CI/CD, Redis, Javascript, Frontend, and Backend. With 12.53 years of relevant experience, Clare is an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and quick learner who is obsessed with customer experience and driving quality into world-class products.