Summary
Crystal L is a product manager with ~5 years of cross-disciplinary experience building user-centered products across adtech, martech, commerce, and education. She blends a CS and design background from Pitt and CMU with hands-on work at Yahoo (DSP data products and commerce) and growth-focused projects at Coda, bringing both analytical rigor and UX sensibility to complex problems. Crystal has led product efforts from revitalizing a family restaurant to designing AI-powered clinical decision-support prototypes, showing a knack for translating real-world constraints into scalable experiences. Based in New York, she focuses on creating products that save time, foster creativity, and build empathy, and has contributed to student-focused open-source efforts that surfaced internship opportunities to thousands.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Digital Narrative and Interactive Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Digital Narrative and Interactive Design at University of Pittsburgh
Cross Registration, Cross Registration at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese, German