David Li Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Lead a talented team of engineers turning ambitious AI concepts into scalable solutions.- Ensure our systems run smoother than your morning coffee (with less jitter).- Focus on making AI-powered services fast, reliable, and capable of handling serious business without breaking a sweat.- Love solving real-world problems and helping businesses boost productivity with a sprinkle of AI magic.Passionate about building things that work so well, you barely notice they’re there—until you need them!

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure OpenAI team at Microsoft, I play a crucial role in shaping the development and operation of cutting-edge AI services globally. My responsibilities include:Strategic Development: Leading the architectural design and development of Azure OpenAI services to ensure scalability and robustness, aligning with the rapid pace of AI advancements.Product Leadership: Driving the end-to-end product lifecycle from conception through deployment, focusing on optimizing the customer experience and ensuring that our products meet the dynamic needs of diverse users.Operational Excellence: Overseeing the deployment and operational strategies of our services, ensuring high availability and reliability across multiple global regions.Innovation Management: Spearheading initiatives to enhance engineering efficiency and productivity, leveraging both traditional and emerging technologies to maintain competitive advantage.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams including product managers, data scientists, and customer support to refine product offerings and integrate user feedback into product enhancements.Thought Leadership: Contributing to the broader AI community through publications, presentations, and participation in industry conferences, establishing Microsoft Azure as a leader in AI technology.In this role, I am committed to advancing the frontiers of artificial intelligence, enhancing customer experiences, and driving significant growth within one of the fastest expanding sectors of the company.- Totally not written using Azure OpenAI.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Cognitive Services Platform teamWorking on next gen architecture and continuous delivery that help to ensure SLAs while minimizing COGS.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Cognitive Services Platform teamWhat we doCognitive Services is a suite of easy-to-use REST-ful APIs and services that allow our customers to extract insights from their own data (image, sound, text, structured data). What I do- Responsible for launching public portal in time for //Build 2016.- Working on engineering system to ensure continuous delivery of APIs and services.- On-boarding new industry-leading APIs and services that delight our customers.- Collaborate with multiple teams from across the world in solving challenging problems in a repeatable and cost-effective fashion.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Windows Division, Engineering Systems Team- Design and development of tools and platform for thousands of testers and developers in Windows to run test automation and failure analysis.- Collaborated with various teams to support a wide variety of test scenarios including but not limited to distributed, kernel, and virtual machine scenarios.- Follows agile methodologies including SCRUM, continuous integration and validation, daily builds and seamless deployments.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked on a small team to design and implement a failure analysis and user feedback system for Microsoft Lync that captured video and voice data in real time.

Taipei, Tw

- Built a team from scratch to deliver high quality software products and services with focus on Microsoft-based technologies.- Evangelized agile methodologies to internal and external teams and worked to tackle difficulties in enforcing iterative development process in an software outsourcing initiative.- Worked cross boundaries with clients in China, Taiwan and US.

I worked on a team to develop and maintain a portal for customer payers and providers to process and view healthcare claims. The system had an ASP front-end, web service on ASP.NET and SQL Server for storage.

Worked with JPMorgan Chase to implement a SLA monitoring application using open source technologies (LAMP stack)