Alan Li

Overview

Founder of Willow HQ, working on climate analytics. Took Willow HQ from zero to $3 million ARR. Signed 316 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises. Travel slowly, usually by train.

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Experience

1. Founder

   Mar 2025 - Present
   Willow HQ · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
   • Took Willow HQ from zero to $5 million ARR.
2. Senior Frontend Engineer

   Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
   Fidelity Investments · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 3.
3. Senior Android Engineer

   Aug 2018 - Sep 2021
   Comcast · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 12 a week to 1.
4. Engineering Manager

   Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
   MongoDB · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Wrote the data service that now handles 42 million requests a day.
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 30% in two quarters.
5. Director of Engineering

   Sep 2012 - Feb 2015
   Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
   • Led the migration of 67 services to enterprise sales.

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Education

1. Johns Hopkins University

   MS, Engineering
   2011 - 2013
2. UT Austin

   BS, Engineering
   2007 - 2011