Gary Li

Full Stack Developer

I am a Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo and a GNOME Foundation member.

I work across languages & frameworks to build practical software that perform well.

May 2025 - Present
StackAdapt
Innovating full-time for better ad planning!
Jan - Apr 2024 & Sept - Dec 2024
StackAdapt
Building full stack ad forecasting features with Ruby on Rails and React.
Jan - Apr 2023
D2L
Engineered full stack RAG AI solutions on AWS with OpenSearch for embeddings storage and and ANN vector similarity searches.
May - Aug 2022
BlackBerry
Continued development of management features focusing on scalable and distributed event streaming using Apache Kafka.
Sept - Dec 2021
BlackBerry
Developed full stack management features for the Mobile Threat Defence team to manage advanced corporate device threats.

See My Resume

Global 2D heat map of radio stations

Bike share mapper supporting the GBFS shared mobility standard

Scalable and open RAG framework for enterprise

Linux USB Mouse Driver Kernel Module

GraphQL API for a data-driven Toronto

Responsive and minimal personal site

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