Patrick Li
Patrick Li (born 1979) is a Co-founding Engineer at GXL, Inc. Patrick was most recently a Senior Software Engineer at Google, where he played an instrumental role in launching 50+ products such as Writely, Google Finance, Google Video, and Orkut. Prior to joining Google, Patrick worked as the Tech Lead for the backend trading systems at E*TRADE Financial. He was also an early partner at Digital Rights Agency, where he designed and implemented a scalable song management and billing system acquired by Digital Music Group.
Patrick's passion for online gaming dates back over a decade ago where he was Dennis Fong's Quake teammate and was regarded as the #2 Quake player in the world, winning numerous team tournaments. Patrick was also the Lead Designer of GXMod, a widely popular, award winning Quake 2 enhancement.
Patrick is one of the original creator's of an online MUD, Tharsis Gate. A game that was built in 1997 that many people still play up to this date.