Thomas Li

Senior Software Engineer (Platform Team Lead) @ SHOPLINE

About

As a Senior Software Engineer and Platform Team Lead at SHOPLINE, I lead a team of backend engineers, focusing on cost optimization, system reliability, and core platform advancements. My role involves managing critical services such as the "Event Center" for inter-service communication, business cronjob integration, and an image service for optimizing performance and storage. Holding a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, I bring a strong technical foundation to my work. I am committed to fostering collaboration, ensuring system efficiency, and driving impactful results. My expertise spans team management, AWS, and cloud-based solutions, all of which contribute to achieving organizational goals effectively.

Country

Hong Kong SAR

City

Kowloon

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Team Management, Aws, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ruby on Rails, Go (Programming Language), Terraform, Technical Solution Design, Software Engineering Practices, DevOps, NoSQL, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL), Cross-functional Coordination, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.NET Core, Research and Development (R&D), AngularJS, Full-Stack Development, Node.js, Kubernetes

Experience

Senior Software Engineer (Platform Team Lead)

SHOPLINE

2024-6 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

香港特別行政區

Leads a team of five backend engineers, driving initiatives in cost optimization, system reliability, and core platform enhancements. Responsible for several key services within the company, including: • "Event Center" service: Manages inter-service event communication and outbound integrations with third-party systems. • Business Cronjob Integration: Oversees the integration of nearly all business cronjobs with the underlying infrastructure, ensuring stability and efficiency. • Image Service: Handles image conversion and compression, optimizing performance and storage utilization.

Senior Software Engineer

SHOPLINE

2023-6 - 2024-5 · 1 yr

Hong Kong SAR

Senior Cloud Programmer, MS Azure

SCOR Digital Solutions

2022-5 - 2023-5 · 1 yr 1 mo

Hong Kong SAR

Drives the modernization of RaPID, an insurance policy administration system that has been administering 1.8M policies across multiple insurance companies, with Azure services. • Performs the System Analysis and Design, And Development for the modernization of RaPID and the integration between RaPID and other systems, mainly using .NET for backend, SQL Server/T-SQL for database/stored procedures, and Azure for the infrastructure • Implements Git and Azure DevOps (Azure Pipelines) based CI/CD pipelines • Reviews and refactors exiisting code for better maintainability, performance and robustness • Imporves processes by managing tasks with Azure DevOps, creating comprehensive documentations and test plans • Proposes technologies that could benefit the team, such as Git, Docker and Cypress, and conducts knowlege sharing sessions to the team

Application Development Analyst

Accenture

2021-7 - 2021-10 · 4 mos

Hong Kong SAR

MNC Canadian Insurance Company - API Development • Develops Restful API using Node.js on Typescript (NestJS framework) • Implements unit test using Jest MNC Hotel Group - Production Support • Production support on frontend applications (Angular) and backend microservices (Node.js) • Performs Extract Transform Load (ETL) on ~250k customer data with MySQL • Uses fully managed AWS features for CI/CD, e.g. AWS CodePipeline, EKS • Coordinates clients, vendors and cross-functional teams to develop and deploy bug fixes and on-going enhancements

Analyst Programmer

trustMEchain

2021-6 - 2021-7 · 2 mos

Hong Kong SAR

Programmer

trustMEchain

2020-6 - 2021-5 · 1 yr

Hong Kong SAR

Developed and deployed full-stack applications; designed APIs with .NET and Node.js; managed SQL/NoSQL databases; built frontends with Angular; administered Kubernetes infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Intern

trustMEchain

2019-6 - 2020-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

Hong Kong SAR

Researched and implemented new technologies to enhance application development and deployment. Built prototypes and contributed to adopting tools later used in production projects.