Hongyu Li

Research Interests

Education

Skills

• –Tech lead for a 5-engineer team, driving project and resource planning, system design, and cross-functional collaboration.
• –Led enterprise stability initiatives across ERP integrations, improving master data pull reliability and driving stability improvements that directly impacted enterprise customer retention.
• –Drove ERP on App Studio enablement, migrating ERP integrations onto the App Studio platform to unlock support for a broader range of ERP systems and expand the addressable customer base.

• –Tech lead for a 6-engineer team, driving system design, cross-functional collaboration, and engineering mentorship.
• –Built App Studio from 0 to production, a no-code integration platform enabling organizations to build custom procurement integrations in days.
• –Designed workflow primitives for triggers, actions, and branching logic to connect Zip with third-party systems.
• –Built the Connector SDK, execution engine, and job scheduler framework supporting dynamic job creation with flexible scheduling patterns, adopted by multiple product teams.
• –Led product infrastructure work, driving a major database migration project to improve scalability and data model flexibility.
• –Extended the platform to support AI agent use cases, treating agents as first-class entities that orchestrate workflows across multiple systems.

• –Tech lead for a 5-engineer core payment team.
• –Architected the Pay-in service from 0 to production, scaling to 180K transactions per day across 5 countries with 20+ payment methods and generating millions in annual revenue.
• –Built core infrastructure including merchant configuration, vendor gateway, routing engine, virtual account system, and anti-fraud system.
• –Led a large-scale database migration to support horizontal scalability and long-term growth.
• –Worked with Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, and AWS.

• –Tech lead for Code AI infrastructure, building unified indexing, training, service, and inference infrastructure across Neural Code Search, Smart Code Completion, Getafix, and Aroma.
• –Built Smart Code Completion from 0 to 1 with 200K adoptions per day and Neural Code Search with 100K+ queries per day.
• –Published research on code search and ranking at ICSE, FSE, and MAPL, and presented at FSE 2019.

• –Built the NUX tip framework for Instagram Business Insights
• –Frontend NUX tip dynamic rendering on iOS

• –Built UI testing automation for Chromecast Android app

Open-domain question answering system with Freebase

• –Built an end-to-end QA system with Freebase from scratch
• –Built language models on matched relations using search engine retrieval

Web app teaching hand gestures with Leap Motion

• –2nd Place at SteelHacks 2015

Original side-scrolling game written in Python