Yang Li

SWE @ McGill, based in Montreal

yang.xiang.64@hotmail.com, GitHub, LinkedIn, the same site but with AI slop

Occupations

Sep 2026: starting an internship at Shopify. Going to discover the difference between working at big tech and a Series B startup.

Sep 2025 - Aug 2026:

Did backend and infra at Botpress. Both under a very smart and chill guy. Preferred the challenges of platform engineering and the thrill of deploying something that might mess up an entire pipeline or cluster. Learned a lot. Worked a lot. Met lots of great people.

Co-founded Cyber Engineering McGill in 2025 and built a full-stack website with registration and e-commerce features. It is now a static site hosted on GitHub since we cannot afford a domain anymore. Currently building a K8s cluster for our CTF challenges on a throwaway gaming rig in my basement that I also happen to use for my homelab. Surely 16 GBs of RAM will be enough for both and will not cause the server to crash during live sessions.

Projects

Typical Proxmox + Tailscale + K3s setup for a *arr stack and CTF challenge containers. Don't see the usefulness of self-hosted services like Immich or Nextcloud so won't be setting those up.

boba-bot: GitHub

AI Slack bot built using the Botpress ADK to help take bubble tea orders for my colleagues. It's a shame that we don't have Heytea or Molly Tea in Montreal.

WebVulture: GitHub

Automated SQL injection pentesting tool that allows you to dump your website URL and get the results with live log streaming. Built this in a hackathon during my first year of uni before I knew what an HTTP server was (lol).