Ryan Li

Cofounder & CEO @ Surf AI

About

Building stuff

Country

United States

City

Berkeley

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Objective-C, C++, Mobile Applications, Software Development, Entrepreneurship, iOS Development, Publicity, Xcode, Presentations, Leadership, NOI, Public Speaking

Experience

Cofounder & CEO

Surf AI

2025-7 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Palo Alto, CA

building professional class AI for crypto and digital assets

Co-Founder

Cyber

2021-3 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

Co-Founder & CTO

DLive

2017-7 - 2021-3 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Cupertino

Acquired by BitTorrent in December 2019. DLive is one of the largest live streaming platforms in the United States, Turkey, and Brazil. The largest live streaming platform in the world built with blockchain technology with 10 million monthly active users.

Cofounder & CTO

Lino Network

2017-7 - 2020-1 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Join millions of users to watch livestreams and earn reward on DLive (https://dlive.tv). PewDiePie streams exclusively on DLive!

Software Engineer

Instagram

2017-5 - 2017-8 · 4 mos

Greater New York City Area

- Worked in Client Performance Team - Created network caching layer for performance and new product features - Created optimistic mutation manager, so that users could have a unified experience even if the network is unstable. - If you find your Instagram working even without Internet connection, you're welcome 😉

Co President

Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs (ACE) at Berkeley

2016-6 - 2017-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

- Lead one of the top 3 largest Chinese Entrepreneurs student organizations in the US. - Have an audience of 5,000, including students and professionals in the bay area. - Connect students, professionals and entrepreneurs with startups and VCs in both the US and China.

Software Engineer Intern

Google

2016-5 - 2016-8 · 4 mos

Mountain View

- Worked in AdMob SDK Team - Created display ads SDK for android N - Built adaptors to integrate third-party ads providers like MoPub.

Research Assistant

University of California, Berkeley

2016-1 - 2016-5 · 5 mos

- Work in Berkeley Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering with UC Berkeley Ph.D. student, Animesh Garg. - Trajectory Planning for da Vinci surgical robot

Co-Founder

SketchMe

2013-6 - 2015-5 · 2 yrs

Funded by Tencent

Founder & CEO

NOVAPEX

2013-9 - 2014-5 · 9 mos

Chongqing City, China

- Created innovative app designs for mainly education and lifestyle improvement for the iOS platform - Developed a TOEFL Speaking app which has gained over 200,000 downloads