Philip Li

San Francisco,USA

Summary

MIT graduate with a degree in computer science and current software engineer at Singlestore, specializing in algorithm development to enhance database performance. Interested in AI innovations and software engineering in a dynamic startup environment.

Work History

Software Engineer

Singlestore

San Francisco, CA

Worked on SingleStore's distributed database engine for real-time streaming analytics.
Navigated through a highly technical codebase and used C++ and SingleStore's code generation library to improve performance.
Enhanced performance of JSON array query operations using filters (solo-project).
Contributed to and wrote test suite for improving load performance for JSON-computed columns.
Results are highlighted in https://www.singlestore.com/blog/singlestore-latest-performance-improvements.

Software Engineer Intern

Singlestore

Seattle, WA

Optimized range-join SQL queries by using an interval tree data structure.
Improved the time complexity of range-join queries from O(N²) to O(N log N); sped up queries by 100 times to 10 times.

Undergraduate Student Researcher (UROP)

MIT Learning To Learn Research Group

Cambridge, MA

I joined Professor Iddo Drori's research group to develop an AI Transformer model to solve homework problems from the MIT course, Introduction to Machine Learning (6.036).
Extended the model (in PyTorch) to questions with images, specifically scatter plots, and neural network charts.
Implemented image segmentation using OpenCV and Matplotlib in Python.
Researched and presented on image recognition technology (Visual Question Answering and Scene Graphs).

Software Engineering Intern

CyberCube

San Francisco, CA

Developed software to collect data using Selenium (web scraping) for modeling cybersecurity risk.
Expanded the technology dependency dataset by 50% and provided data for future downstream operations
Used the BERT model from Hugging Face for NLP (relationship extraction) on technology descriptions.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Mathematics

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Cambridge, MA

01.2024

Skills

Software engineering
Databases
Algorithms and data structures

Machine learning
C, Python, Java, JS, SQL

Timeline

Software Engineer

Singlestore

Software Engineer Intern

Singlestore

Undergraduate Student Researcher (UROP)

MIT Learning To Learn Research Group

Software Engineering Intern

CyberCube

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Mathematics

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology