Summary
Diana Liao is a software engineer and PIM operations lead with a decade of experience applying technical solutions to nonprofit, government, and product data challenges. Trained as a chemical engineer at Yale and later retrained at Flatiron School, she brings analytical rigor to full‑stack work in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/React, SQL and MongoDB while prioritizing accessibility and impact. She has shipped production SaaS features, maintained APIs, authored tests, and run on-call rotations, and now focuses on data quality and automation in product information management. A seasoned instructor and mentor, Diana leads cohorts and volunteer teams to expand technical opportunity for adult learners. Unusually, her background as a patent examiner and nonprofit program manager informs a habit of turning process improvements into high-leverage tech solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
B.S., Chemical Engineering, B.S., Chemical Engineering at Yale University
Hunter College High School
Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese