Product Engineering
React, Next.js, Angular, Ionic, React Native, and testing practices shaped around maintainable user-facing delivery.
Senior Software Engineer · Brisbane, QLD, AU · UQ
Building reliable product systems across web, mobile, cloud, and AI.
I design and deliver scalable full-stack systems across enterprise platforms, mobile apps, APIs, and AWS infrastructure, with a growing focus on practical AI workflows that improve how teams and users get work done.
Current focus
Enterprise learning platforms, event-driven services, AWS infrastructure, and practical AI workflows.
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptAWSNode.jsAI WorkflowsTestingPlatform Reliability
Backend & Cloud
Node.js, TypeScript, ASP.NET Core, PHP APIs, AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, and DynamoDB.
Architecture
Microservices, event-driven systems, DDD, caching strategies, API design, CI/CD, and platform reliability work.
AI Workflows
OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, LangChain, RAG, function calling, MCP, and AI-assisted delivery patterns.
Experience
From product delivery to platform ownership.
The new portfolio leads with Zhenyuan (Vincent) Li’s professional work at The University of Queensland and Simpro, then keeps selected independent projects where they show useful engineering range.
Senior Software Engineer
The University of Queensland
Sep 2025 - Present
Designing and maintaining enterprise learning platform integrations, event-driven services, and AWS-hosted microservices that support university teaching and learning systems.
Software Developer
Simpro
Jun 2023 - Aug 2025
Built cross-platform mobile features and production APIs, improved reliability through tests and refactors, and delivered AI/ML-focused hackathon projects recognized across engineering.
Selected Work
Fewer projects, stronger stories.
Selected work from enterprise platforms, product delivery, developer tooling, and early team leadership.
Enterprise platform
UQ Learning Platform Integrations
Event-driven services, Blackboard integrations, containerized workloads, observability, and CI/CD quality work for large-scale university digital platforms.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsASP.NET CoreAWS ECS
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Product engineering
Simpro Mobile & AI Workflows
Technician-facing mobile workflows, API synchronization, legacy modernization, and proof-of-concept LLM/RAG patterns for contextual task assistance.
AngularIonicPHP SlimLangChainRAG
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Independent build
zl-jspg
A JavaScript notebook-style playground with Monaco editing, markdown cells, esbuild bundling, IndexedDB caching, and npm package publishing.
ReactReduxExpressMonacoesbuild
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Team leadership
Health Hero
Led a six-person agile team building a cross-platform meal planning app with nutrition reports and offline TensorFlow Lite recognition.
FlutterExpressMongoDBTensorFlow Lite
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Contact
Let’s talk about useful software.
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