Chris Tian
Staff Product Manager at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Tian is a product leader with 11 years of experience designing consumer-facing products and ML-driven logistics, currently a Staff Product Manager at Waymo based in San Francisco. He has driven multi-hundred-million-dollar business impact through roles at Lyft—where he led ML and simulation work for ETAs and pricing that boosted gross bookings by $160M/year—and earlier product and analytics leadership at Block, DoorDash/Caviar, and Rakuten. Chris blends deep data and experimentation instincts with hands-on ownership of courier and rider experiences, fraud mitigation, and personalization systems. He is comfortable shipping complex backend infrastructure and mobile apps while translating analytics into strategy, a skill rooted in his economics and mathematics background from NYU Stern. Notably, he repeatedly converts operational improvements (reduced order duration, increased engaged hours, eliminated fraud exposure) into measurable revenue and profit gains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Economic Theory and Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Economic Theory and Minor in Mathematics at NYU Stern School of BusinessProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
cgtian/cgtian.github.io
Jan 2018 - Feb 2023
Chris' Website
Contributions:71 commits, 4 PRs, 136 pushes in 5 years 2 months
cgtian/code_samples
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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