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I am an experienced Senior Cloud Software Engineer with a passion for designing and operating distributed backend systems on AWS and Azure. I enjoy building scalable, real-time applications using Node.js and Go, and I’m enthusiastic about integrating AI-powered features into cloud environments to boost functionality and efficiency. I thrive in cross-functional teams, value reliable deployments and observability, and love exploring new tooling to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.…I am an experienced Senior Cloud Software Engineer with a passion for designing and operating distributed backend systems on AWS and Azure. I enjoy building scalable, real-time applications using Node.js and Go, and I’m enthusiastic about integrating AI-powered features into cloud environments to boost functionality and efficiency. I thrive in cross-functional teams, value reliable deployments and observability, and love exploring new tooling to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.

Andy Li

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Cloud Developer, +2

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I am an experienced Senior Cloud Software Engineer with a passion for designing and operating distributed backend systems on AWS and Azure. I enjoy building scalable, real-time applications using Node.js and Go, and I’m enthusiastic about integrating AI-powered features into cloud environments to boost functionality and efficiency. I thrive in cross-functional teams, value reliable deployments and observability, and love exploring new tooling to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.…I am an experienced Senior Cloud Software Engineer with a passion for designing and operating distributed backend systems on AWS and Azure. I enjoy building scalable, real-time applications using Node.js and Go, and I’m enthusiastic about integrating AI-powered features into cloud environments to boost functionality and efficiency. I thrive in cross-functional teams, value reliable deployments and observability, and love exploring new tooling to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.

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I am an experienced Senior Cloud Software Engineer with a passion for designing and operating distributed backend systems on AWS and Azure. I enjoy building scalable, real-time applications using Node.js and Go, and I’m enthusiastic about integrating AI-powered features into cloud environments to boost functionality and efficiency.

I thrive in cross-functional teams, value reliable deployments and observability, and love exploring new tooling to improve developer productivity and product outcomes.

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Work Experience

Senior AI & Cloud Engineer at Yelp

May 1, 2022 - June 1, 2026

Developed a caching and rate-limiting service layer for OpenAI-backed endpoints, reducing inference cost and tail latency while maintaining high availability for AI review summaries and category tagging. Standardized infrastructure deployment using AWS ECS and Terraform, integrating DynamoDB, S3, and Kinesis to streamline service rollouts and rollbacks, enhancing team productivity and incident response. Introduced AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, accelerating feature delivery and reducing manual engineering toil through code generation and automated checks. Improved p99 latency and availability of high-traffic consumer APIs by designing Node.js and TypeScript backend services with bounded timeouts and caching. Implemented Redis-backed coordination for retries and idempotency, reducing duplicate processing and clarifying failure boundaries across services. Enhanced incident detection and diagnosis by instrumenting services with metrics, structured logs, and CloudWatch aler

Cloud Software Engineer at Best Buy

August 1, 2021 - May 1, 2022

Enhanced release safety and speed by implementing CI/CD improvements, staged rollouts, and rollback-ready Docker deployments on AWS. Developed Node.js and SQL-based services to support high-volume retail traffic, ensuring stability during peak events. Optimized PostgreSQL and MySQL queries to maintain stable response times under high load, improving service performance during retail events. Collaborated on Docker-based deployments and monitoring, improving production visibility and deployment consistency. Increased test coverage and release confidence by introducing integration tests and pre-deploy checks, reducing production defects. Streamlined cross-team handoffs by aligning on API contracts and acceptance criteria, reducing cycle time from specification to production.

Full Stack Software Engineer at Open Systems International

December 1, 2017 - August 1, 2021

Built reliable backend APIs in Node.js, REST, and SQL for real-time monitoring and control workflows, ensuring predictable system behavior. Designed clear API contracts with explicit timeout and edge-case handling, reducing production surprises and improving system reliability. Improved incident response time by supporting on-call operations and debugging in Linux-based environments. Automated build and deploy steps, reducing deployment errors and time by documenting runbooks and streamlining processes. Enhanced system maintainability by adding tests and refactoring critical workflow paths, reducing defect escape rates. Mentored junior engineers on backend reliability and system design, improving overall team output quality.