Yaozhen Michael Li
Senior Data / BI Engineer | Fintech, Healthcare & Transportation | 10+ Years of Data & Analytics Experience
- Role
- Senior Business Intelligence Engineer at Credit Karma
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yaozhen Michael Li
Senior Business Intelligence / Data Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and owning large-scale analytics platforms across fintech, healthcare, and logistics. Proven ability to optimize data infrastructure, reduce operational costs, and enable executive decision-making through reliable analytics systems. Led enterprise-level BigQuery, Airflow, and BI initiatives delivering $500K+ in monthly cost savings and supporting high-impact financial and product decisions. Strong background in data modeling, analytics engineering, and cross-functional collaboration.
Experience
Senior Business Intelligence Engineer
Mar 2024 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US
Designed and implemented centralized analytics logging and observability framework, exporting BigQuery system and query logs with low latency and minimal cost overhead2. Owned and operated Credit Karma’s Analytics Airflow platform, defining scheduling and governance strategies to coordinate cross-team analytics workloads, and reduced average BigQuery slot waste by ~80% through builder lineage–based governance, time-consistent workload scheduling, and automated detection and alerting3. Led Credit Karma BigQuery storage and slot resource strategy, optimizing data retention and workload allocation, resulting in $500K+ monthly cost savings
Education
Zhengzhou University
Bachelor's degree, Economics
2009 — 2013
Portland State University
Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General
2012 — 2013
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
2020
Udacity
Data Analyst Nanodegree, Data Science
2017 — 2018
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Master's degree, Business Logistics Engineering
2013 — 2014
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