Personal log · last updated 2026.04

Tony Li

B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale. Previously built AI infrastructure and data infrastructure at TikTok.

I. About

I'm interested in ML systems, high-performance code, and applied data science. Lately I've been exploring GPU programming and applied machine learning. Outside of school and work, I like building small full-stack apps.

II. Education

Sep 2022 – May 2026

Yale University — B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics

[Operating Systems][Compilers][Systems Programming][Algorithms][Randomized Algorithms][Data Structures][Introduction to Machine Learning][Applied Machine Learning and Causal Inference][Linear Models][Full-stack Web Programming][Parallel Programming]

III. Experience

2025 — present
Alkera AI — Co-founder, COO
Creating the next generation data IDE.
May — Aug 2025
TikTok — Software Engineer Intern
Built a Python framework for creating multi-agent, MCP-compatible AI workflows, with less boilerplate and more customizability than LangChain and LangGraph.
Jun — Aug 2024
Carthage Capital — Quantitative Developer Intern
Engineered data pipelines to extract relationships between prices, volatilities, and other factors for 10,000+ symbols daily.
May — Aug 2023
Yale University — Undergraduate Research Assistant
Integrated two neural network models into an existing ensemble model for identifying particles from grids obtained by Cryo-EM.

IV. Selected Projects

Aug 2022 — Jan 2024
StudyBlock[React, TypeScript]
Full-stack flashcard platform gamified by Tetris.

V. Skills

C · C++ · Python · TypeScript · React · AWS · PyTorch