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.
10 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 (51)
algorithm10
algorithms10
mkdocs-material10
qt10
python10
matplotlib10
dsa10
data-structure10
java10
gtk10
data-structures10
data-visualization10
cpp10
csharp10
data-science9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
frankliuao/nufromloss
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
frankliuao/LANLdocs
May 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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