Yoko Li

Partner (AI & Infra Investment)

2022 - Current

yli@a16z.com Pre-seed - series B: Developer Tools, Creativity Tools, Infrastructure, Javascript ecosystem, AI Partner to: - Clerk (seed) - Nrwl/Nx (seed, A) - Svix (seed) - Inngest (seed) - Upstash - Mintlify (series A) - Stealth co in devtool - Stealth co in security/devtool -...

Cartoonist

2019

Cartoons about tech, culture, cooking, and many behind-the-scenes stories. More cartoons at https://yoko.dev/ and https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws I'm working on a book about Asian cooking, culture, and personal stories. Reach out if you are interested to share your stories or just want to chat!

Angel Investor

2021 - 2022

The Hashicorp Alumni community runs HashiAngels investing network - reach out if you are thinking about founding a company or want to join the network of ex-Hashicorp angel investors! Investments mainly in B2B SaaS and Infra

Product Lead

2021 - 2022

Product lead, Terraform Cloud infrastructure lifecycle management. OSS commercialization. Developer-focused product GTM Reach out if you want to chat about Terraform, Terraform Cloud, and the IaC space in general!

Senior Product Manager

2021 - 2022

Led product focusing on the cloud native enterprises on Terraform Cloud

Product Management

2019 - 2021

- Product vision + roadmap + specs for a DevOps-centric product with a technical platform - Product positioning, sales strategy and GTM - Supporting customers - Growth experimentation on the platform product - Published blog posts on several technical subjects to drive engagement - Drew comic white papers for product marketing

Senior Software Engineer/Founding Engineer

2017 - 2019

- Built various dev-centric platform services using Reactjs, Java, Terraform, Typescript - Built and maintained growth ETL pipeline with various AWS services - DevOps tooling and managing infrastructure

Software Engineer II

2016 - 2017

Acquired by Cisco - Server and Infrastructure Monitoring team. Worked on Service Availability Monitoring, Server Monitoring and Containers monitoring. - Worked on both front and backend using Angularjs, Typescript and Java. Set up build infrastructure with Gradle and Teamcity - Container Monitoring feature design and mocks - Python/Shell scripting - Led API response time benchmarking using Python and identified several key system flaws. The benchmarking tool contributed greatly to identifying weak links internally, and helped to close several important deals with our business partners.

Software Engineer

2015 - 2016

Teaching Assistant

2014 - 2015

Parallel Computing

Research Assistant

2014 - 2015

Researched on parallel programs visualization in Habanero Multicore Lab