Aaron Li — Software Engineer
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Software Engineer II at Geico, building GitOps platforms that keep 100+ applications and millions of daily API requests running. Stony Brook computer science, 2024 — still shipping full-stack products on the side.
Experience
Where I’ve worked
Software Engineer II · Geico
Platform & infrastructure engineering for enterprise API delivery on Azure Kubernetes.
90%faster API delivery99.9%uptime · 100+ appsMillionsof daily API requests- Designed and built an enterprise-scale GitOps platform with ArgoCD, orchestrating API deployments across 15+ environments and multiple Azure Kubernetes clusters.
- Accelerated API delivery ~90% by automating GitOps workflows and shortening deployment cycles for platform services.
- Architected zero-downtime deployment strategies for high-traffic API gateways and microservices serving millions of daily requests.
- Established self-service platform infrastructure that cut environment provisioning from days to under two hours.
- Maintained 99.9% uptime across 100+ applications through on-call incident response, monitoring, and API governance.
- ArgoCD
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- Helm
- REST APIs
- Git
Event Coordinator · Fundraising Chair · Graphic Designer · Asian Students Alliance
Leadership, fundraising, and design for a large campus community.
- Organized fundraisers with 30+ businesses, driving 25% year-over-year growth in funding.
- Coordinated 20+ campus organizations and staff to host events for 2,000+ attendees a year.
- Mentored 14 members on technical skills, reaching 90% retention while scaling events 40% annually.
- Designed visuals and ran social media, growing campus presence 86%.
- Leadership
- Graphic Design
- Event Ops
- Social Media
Selected Work
Things I’ve built
- 01
TixBot
A nightly presale-hunting data pipeline
2 years of event data scanned nightly across 104 windows · 5 integrated APIs
- Python
- asyncio
- aiohttp
- Ticketmaster API
- Spotify API
- Gemini
- Oracle Cloud
2025 — present - 02
ViBE
A song-recommender built on Spotify’s API
+52% usability for users with disabilities · +32% mobile satisfaction
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- Firebase
- Jest
- MSW
- Playwright
- 03
Cartistry
A map-editing community forum
+30% code quality · −15% turnaround with a 3-dev team
- React
- JavaScript
- Express
- MongoDB
- Node
- 042022
Toolkit
What Iwork with
- Languages
- JavaPythonC++C#TypeScriptJavaScriptCSQL
- Frontend
- ReactSvelteViteTailwind CSSMaterial UIGSAPBootstrap
- Backend & Data
- Node.jsExpressFirebaseMongoDBMySQLREST APIs
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWSGCPAzureArgoCDKubernetesHelmOracle CloudVercel
- Testing & Quality
- PlaywrightCypressVitestJestESLintPrettierGrafana
About
Curious by default,engineer by training,designer at heart.
I’m a software engineer at Geico and a 2024 Stony Brook computer science grad. By day I work on platform and infrastructure — GitOps, Kubernetes, and zero-downtime deploys — and off the clock I keep building full-stack products.
I like turning fuzzy ideas into clear, usable products — from data models and APIs to the interface details that make software feel good to use. Years of leading and designing for a campus community left me caring as much about people and craft as about the code. Outside work, you’ll find me on the court, at a concert, or making a pizza from scratch.
B.S. Computer Science · Stony Brook University · 2024 · GPA 3.51