Li Yu

Engineering Manager | Building AI-Native Data Platforms (LLMs) | Financial Data Infrastructure | Reducing Vendor Cost & Scaling Data Workflows

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Bloomberg (13 yrs)
    • Team Lead
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      Leading a team to modernize financial data infrastructure by building an AI-powered platform that replaces fragmented legacy systems with a unified, reusable acquisition and extraction framework. Driving a shift toward LLM-powered, self-serve data workflows to reduce vendor costs, improve data quality, and enable scalable data operations.

    • Team Lead
      Nov 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

    • Financial Software Developer
      Jul 2013 - Nov 2019 · 6 yrs 5 mos

      Equity - Market Driver

  • Research Assistant at University of Notre Dame
    Aug 2008 - Jul 2013 · 5 yrs

    I developed software suite that allows users to create large-scale parallel appications with minimal efforts, execute their applications on heterogeneous computing platforms (clusters, grids, and clouds), and manage these computer resources efficiently.

  • Financial Software Developer Intern at Bloomberg LP
    Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 · 3 mos

    Developed a brand new Bloomberg terminal function that allows the BVault team to monitor their storage growth (all of Bloomberg's message and chat data) and estimate the future storage needs. The function allows users to organize storage volumes in a tree structure and thus provides a customized logical view of the entire storage space.

  • Research Assistant at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Sep 2006 - Jun 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Created a web front-end for an existing disk array controller management system using the JavaEE platform. I implemented the software layer that bridged the Java web font-end and the underlying C++ interface exposed by the disk array controller management system.