Li Gao

Li Gao is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in developing large scale distributed systems and web scale SaaS systems. With a strong technical background, Li has spent 8+ years in technical leadership, team management, project planning, and execution.

Known for excellent analytical skills, Li excels in distributed system architecture, design, team leadership, people management, and customer relationship management. Li's technical specialties include Amazon AWS, Hadoop, HBase, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, Apache Aurora, Mesos, and more, showcasing deep expertise in building web scale real-time distributed systems.

Educationally, Li pursued a Doctor of Philosophy at New Jersey Institute Of Technology after completing a Bachelor of Science at Tsinghua University.

Li Gao has held various significant roles in esteemed organizations, including working in Engineering at Databricks Runtime Compute Fabric at Databricks, as well as in Engineering at Unified Analytics Data Infrastructure at Lyft. Notably, Li has also served as a Principal/Architect in Data Platform at Fitbit, in Streaming Data Analytics Infrastructure at Salesforce, as Sr Lead Architect in Data Platform at Marin Software, Sr Engineering Manager in Groupon Payments at Groupon, Director of Engineering at Captora, Principal Architect at Tyco Integrated Security, Senior Architect at Proximex (part of Tyco Integrated Security), Principal Software Engineer / Engineering Lead at Proximex, Consultant at Zenprise, Principal Software Engineer / Team Lead at Zenprise, Senior Software Developer / Project Lead at OSIsoft, Inc., and Senior Software Engineer at Kesler Engineering, Inc.