Shuyu (Steven) Li
Computer Science Student at NYU Tandon · New York, NY
Full-stack software developer with 4+ years of AI / Machine Learning development experience (since 2022) focused on AI / Large Language Model (LLM) applications and the production web stack.
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Experience
Bank of China
New York, NY
Enterprise Risk Management — Software Engineer Intern
Part-time, continued from full-time internship
Jan – Apr 2026
- Continued work on the same risk-management tool, moving it from a test environment to live production use by the team.
- Adjusted the application so it could read and write the bank's existing internal databases instead of the prototype data store.
Full-time
Jul – Aug 2025
- Built the user-facing screens of an internal tool the bank's risk team uses to record and review enterprise-risk events.
- Set up the login flow so that only authorized employees can sign in and access the data.
- Connected the screens to a cloud database so risk officers can add, edit, and view records, with updates appearing live for everyone on the team.
Selected projects
Extensible API Platform and Control Plane (Project Hail Mary)
2026Rewrote the platform in TypeScript (Node.js 24): 26 services as independently deployable plugins on a ~1,200-line deploy-and-rollback runtime built on the Cordis plugin framework.
Distributed Systems · TypeScript · Microservices · CI/CD
Memoo — Personal Claude-Powered Agent Bot
2026A Generative AI / Multi-Agent personal assistant with persistent memory at half the consolidation cost.
Multi-Agent · Generative AI · Sandboxed Execution · RAG Memory
Custom Generative AI for Chinese Web-Novel Writing — 35B MoE Model (v2)
2026A 35B MoE LLM that produces longer, in-style chapter completions and specifically eliminates v1's premature-end-of-sequence bug.
LLM Fine-Tuning · Mixture-of-Experts · LoRA · Distributed Training
laya-tiny — One Sentence In, a 4 MB Expert Model Out (Knowledge Distillation)
2026On support-ticket triage the student is 211× smaller (4.0 MB) and about 230× faster (0.51 ms on CPU) than its teacher.
Knowledge Distillation · Transformer · ONNX · Synthetic Data
