Athena Xiao
Product Manager at DarkVision
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAthena Xiao is an AI Product Manager with nine years of cross-functional experience building cloud-native enterprise SaaS and edge-to-cloud computer vision products, currently leading Connected Spaces and camera experience features at DarkVision/Microsoft. She combines deep technical fluency in ML, APIs, and SDLC with hands-on rapid prototyping—demonstrated by a live speaker coach demo using YOLO and OpenAI models delivered in days—and has contributed to a patented camera view-change algorithm. Athena is experienced in strategic customer ownership and partner integrations (Axis, Cisco), driving LAN/WAN IoT systems for real-time safety and security, and translating market research on Generative and Edge AI into product strategy. Her background spans research at Harvard Business School and NSF-funded ML research at UMD, plus entrepreneurial consulting and pro bono tech for non-profits, giving her a rare blend of academic rigor, startup grit, and customer-facing delivery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship, Leadership, 2nd prize, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, 2nd prize at Draper UniversityBachelor of Science (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.A.), Computer Science at Brandeis UniversityExchange Student, International Management, Exchange Student, International Management at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNWManagement of Information System, Management of Information System at Beijing Foreign Studies University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
cs5010
translation10
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glossary1
wechat1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
athena-xcy/CS50-Study-Group
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
CS50 Study Group & Subtitle Translation Initiative
Contributions:191 commits, 10 PRs, 193 pushes in 2 years 9 months
volunteeringchinese-translationtranslationinitiativesubtitle-translation
athena-xcy/CS50-Glossary
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Glossary 术语表
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes in 15 days
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