Patrick Li

Current

• Founding Engineer at Raptr

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Google
• Senior Systems Engineer at E*TRADE Financial

Education

• University of California, Davis

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Patrick Li’s Summary

My career objective: Work with brilliant minded people, tackle challenging problems, and make a difference in the world.

I am currently working with a talented team in pioneering a new way for users to discover new games and share their gaming experiences with friends.

I have years of experience architecting and implementing cutting-edge solutions for building and running mission-critical, consumer-facing web applications.

Patrick Li’s Specialties:

software engineering (c, c++, java, python, perl, php, etc), distributed computing, systems design and deployment, high availability operation, product development

Patrick Li’s Experience

• Founding Engineer

  Raptr

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years)

  Raptr is building a new way for people to play and discover games. Our goal is to make playing games more fun and social. We do this by letting you:
  
  * Know when your friends are playing on the PC, Mac, Xbox and more
  * Instant message with your friends
  * Automatically keep your PC games up-to-date with the latest patches
  * Share your achievements automatically with your friends on Raptr and popular services like Facebook and Twitter
  * Discover new games you might like
  
  I have been involved in building many of the backend components of the site from ground up. Currently, I'm the team lead and the sole backend engineer for the Raptr client, a desktop client that runs on both the PC and Mac. I'm also the lead backend engineer for the games recommendation engine and various other discovery components of the site.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  July 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  I was brought in as the first employee to a new group named Systems Deployment Engineering, whose job is to quickly learn the intricacies of Google's proprietary deployment infrastructure and use that knowledge to rapidly deploy new Google services into datacenters. This role required me to partner up with other software engineers across Google's global R&D team and to pioneer new ways to integrate and deploy their products into Google's production environment.
  
  Then I moved to the Launch Engineering team, where I was the launch lead for 70+ launches at Google. My role required me to audit, evaluate, and advise on the architecture, capacity, reliability, failover and scalability, security, performance, monitoring and manageability of every product launch conducted by Google.
  
  I also spent my 20% time implementing cool features for products such as Google Finance, Mobile Wireless Transcoder, Google Reader, and a few other super secret projects.

• Senior Systems Engineer

  E*TRADE Financial

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ET; Internet industry)

  July 2001 — June 2005 (4 years)

  * Tech Lead for numerous core backend components of the trading system.
  * Designed and implemented the batch framework scaled for thousands of batch jobs.
  * Created various tools for release engineering, deployment, and monitoring.

Patrick Li’s Education

• University of California, Davis

  BS , Computer Science

Additional Information

Patrick Li’s Websites:

• My Company

Patrick Li’s Honors:

Golden Helmet Award, 2004

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