Ao Liu
Principal Technical Product Manager at Fortra
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAo 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.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Accelerator Physics, Ph.D., Accelerator Physics at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Lanzhou UniversityUnited States Particle Accelerator School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (67)
python10
ruby10
gtk10
cpp10
qt10
swift10
js10
rust10
algorithm10
data-structure10
java10
go10
csharp10
kotlin10
algorithms10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
frankliuao/easyexception
Apr 2019 - Jun 2025
Easy-to-use custom error/warning/message exceptions.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 2 months
frankliuao/py_mice_analysis_tools
Sep 2016 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches, 1 tag in 8 years 10 months
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