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Zack Li
Member #2,525FounderL2Tech Lead, Qualcomm Inc
CTO & Co-founder @NexaAI (acquired by @qualcomm) · ex-@google, Amazon Lab126
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Build dynamic, secure APIs with FastAPI: Features DB integration, real-time WebSocket, streaming, and efficient request handling with middleware, powered by Starlette and Pydantic.
concurrency
fastapijwt-tokenopenai-apipydantic-v2
Search Algorithms and related LLM & agent frameworks
Public GitHub Pages host for zackli.ai (built from private personal-website)
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About
Zack Li is a GenAI Inference lead at Qualcomm Inc, where he works on a generative AI runtime that runs models across Snapdragon NPU, GPU, and CPU. He co-founded Nexa AI and served as its CTO before Qualcomm acquired the company, and earlier he built on-device AI and software systems at Google and Amazon Lab126. He also writes about speculative decoding and contributes to open-source projects such as llama.cpp.
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Raises & exits
Member RaisesCapital raised
Nexa AI
$8.75M
Exits
Hall of Fame →Undisclosed
Qualcomm's 2026 acquisition of Nexa AI was confirmed by the company's developer blog, founders' posts and GitHub, but no purchase price was found in the searches, so no amount is reported.
Experience
Engineering Lead, Gen AI inference @ Qualcomm | Co-founder / CTO @ Nexa AI (Acquired by Qualcomm) | Ex-Google, Amazon, Stanford
Engineering Lead, GenieX | Senior Staff ML Engineer · Qualcomm
Cofounder & CTO · Nexa AI
Software Engineer III · Google
Software Engineer II · Amazon Lab126
Software Engineer · Cadence Design Systems
SC
Course Assistant (CS229T) · Stanford Computer Science Department
SM
Research Assistant · Stanford MS&E Department
