Summary
Ao Liu is a Principal Technical Product Manager with a decade of technical and product leadership experience bringing cloud-native SaaS, data, and ML products from research to production. With a Ph.D. background in accelerator physics and a track record across FinTech, government-funded R&D, and startups, Ao blends deep technical chops in Python, SQL, AWS, and modern ML frameworks with hands-on Agile delivery and incident-driven reliability improvements. They have owned product strategy and full lifecycle roadmaps while leading cross-functional teams in engineering, data science, UX, and enterprise analytics to ship scalable solutions. A Certified Scrum Master and former PI, Ao is comfortable translating complex research problems into pragmatic, deployable systems and has reviewed DOE SBIR proposals and served on a university alumni board. Outside work Ao stays visible as a content creator on technology and leadership, writes apps for fun, and is a passionate fitness advocate — a combination that underscores disciplined, outcome-focused leadership.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Accelerator Physics, Ph.D., Accelerator Physics at Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Lanzhou University
United States Particle Accelerator School
Chinese, English