About

Rick Li is a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Software Developer/DevOps Engineer with over 10 years of relevant experience. He is an agile, enthusiastic, and quality-focused professional who is well-versed in a wide array of developing software solutions. Rick's expertise includes studying information requirements, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following the software development lifecycle. Rick has a proven track record of strategically improving operations by conducting systems analysis, recommending changes in policies and procedures, as well as identifying operational feasibility by conducting evaluation analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. He is an articulate communicator and team player with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills. Currently, Rick is working as a Sr. Software Developer at a stealth startup that focuses on blockchain, NLP, and power domain. He is a GitHub Panda contributor and has received the MVP Award at his current job. Rick has introduced pair programming, architectural patterns, and code quality reviews to reduce tech debt. He has also mentored five Jr. engineers and trained them to work independently. As a Scrum master, Rick manages onsite and offsite remote teams and has reduced lead time for new feature requests down to 30%. Rick has extensive experience in building API-driven publishing services, handling 5M QPM performing at 83% cache efficiency. He has cleared several performance bottlenecks in Mercurial for large-scale deployments and built out the source control query service that queries information in a scalable and efficient manner. Using GO, Rick has developed a microservice for reading bigData(millions) from PostgreS and has experience writing data APIs and multi-server applications to meet product needs using Go. He has also developed new RESTful API services middleware between the application and 3rd-party APIs that they will use by Go. Rick has worked with various go frameworks like gin, revel, beego, and has extended the build system to integrate with the mercurial sparse feature cutting down on performance issues with overly large repositories. He has rebuilt the mercurial sparse subsystem to move it from an implementation detail to an end-user-friendly tool. Rick has implemented dev automation using Docker, Jenkins CI, and test automation tools. Rick's past experience includes working as a Senior Research and Development Engineer at Docomo Innovations, Inc. and as a DevOps Engineer at Verizon. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from The George Washington University and a