Vanessa Li

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Staff Android Engineer at Signal Finance | ex-Huawei

Signal Finance
Hong Kong · HKT (UTC+8)
12+ years experience
INSEAD Singapore
English, Cantonese
Open to work
Messaging unavailable

Overview

I work on mobile apps at Signal Finance in Hong Kong. Wrote the Gradle service that now handles 21 million requests a day. I teach a weekend class on Jetpack Compose.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in mobile apps
  • Questions about mobile apps
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on Jetpack Compose decisions
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
Jetpack ComposeAndroid performanceGradleCoroutines
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Android Engineer roles in climate tech - Hong Kong or remote

Target roles
Android Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Healthtech, Logistics
Work mode
Remote
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Open to relocating
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Jetpack Compose with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Crypto

12 years in mobile apps. Strongest at Coroutines and Android performance. Can start in about six weeks.

Hong Kongcoroutinesgradlejetpack compose
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Experience

  1. Staff Android Engineer
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Signal Finance · 4 yr · Full-time · Hong Kong
    • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 36% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the Jetpack Compose service that now handles 82 million requests a day.
  2. Android Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
    Huawei · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hong Kong
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 15 a week to 2.
  3. Android Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Jul 2020
    Atlassian · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hong Kong
    • Wrote the Gradle service that now handles 76 million requests a day.
  4. Android Engineer
    Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
    PropertyGuru · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hong Kong
    • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 686ms to 117ms.

Projects

Write-up: mobile apps in practice
2026

A long-form guide to mobile apps for people starting out.

Mobile apps benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Jetpack Compose and Gradle on real workloads.

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Education

  1. INSEAD Singapore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. KAIST
    BS, Mathematics
    2010 - 2014

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