Brandon Li

Software Engineer

I like to build fun low-level projects no one has ever thought of...

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About Me

I'm a college junior from Boston passionate about developing low-level software for the open-source community. I currently study Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). You may find me online as PulseBeat02.

I currently work and have worked on some cool stuff, like YouTube, VLC Media Player (traffic cone), and some of my own open-source projects like yt-media-storage that dive deep into multimedia systems.

In my spare time, I practice clarinet in my university orchestra and wind ensemble, and upload videos on my YouTube channel, where I discuss some of my fun projects in further depth.

Experience

  1. Amazon (Amazon Web Services)

    Software Development Engineer Intern

    Sep 2026 – Dec 2026

    MCPs & Agents for Internal Task Management (Fall 2026)

    • MCP
    • AI Agents
    • A2A
    • Authentication
    • AWS
    • Testing
  2. Google (YouTube)

    Software Engineering Intern

    Jun 2026 – Sep 2026

    Android Media Player, AV1 (Summer 2026)

    • C++
    • ARM NEON/SIMD
    • AV1
    • dav1d
    • Java
    • Android
    • OpenGL
    • ExoPlayer
  3. VideoLAN

    Software Engineering Intern

    Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

    Video Filters & Tooling (Summer 2025)

    • C
    • C++
    • OpenCV
    • ggml
    • SAM2/SAM3
    • YuNet

Projects

  • yt-media-storage

    Stores any file as a YouTube video.

    Stars: 906Forks: 114

    • C++
    • FFmpeg
    • SIMD
    • OpenMP
    • Qt 6
    • libsodium
    • Wirehair
  • mcav

    A real-time Java multimedia framework.

    Stars: 132Forks: 8

    • Java
    • GLSL
    • libVLC
    • OpenCV
    • QEMU
    • VNC
    • TeamCity
    • Maven
  • Pulse Media Player

    A media player in 1K lines of C++.

    Stars: 26Forks: 2

    • C++
    • OpenGL
    • OpenAL
    • FFmpeg
  • Murder Run

    A Dead by Daylight gamemode for Minecraft.

    Stars: 15Forks: 1

    • Java
    • Hibernate
    • Bukkit