Joan Liu
Senior Product Manager, Fares Technology at MBTA
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoan Liu is a Senior Product Manager with eight years of experience pairing a technical engineering background with user-centered product work, currently leading fares technology at the MBTA. She has a track record of shipping transportation and developer-focused products across roles at MBTA, Tidelift, and several Boston-area startups, thriving at the intersection of policy, payments, and developer ecosystems. Comfortable reading code and working closely with engineers, Joan learns by doing and prefers contract-to-hire engagements—the route she used to launch her PM career. She brings mechanical engineering rigor from Olin College to product problems, favoring hard, practical challenges that produce measurable user value. Based in Somerville, she combines transit-focused domain knowledge with a pragmatic, collaborative approach that helps cross-functional teams move from ambiguity to deployed features.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
American Competitiveness Institute (ACI)Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringTexas Academy of Math and Science, Texas Academy of Math and Science at University of North Texas
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
e-mail10
jquery3
php3
drupal3
phing3
javascript3
file-watcher3
typescript2
mysql2
docker2
accessibility2
react2
drush2
lando2
management2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joanliu/disposable-email-domains
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
A list of disposable email domains
Contributions:207 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
e-mail
crossbrowsertesting/ReleaseHistory
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Release History for CrossBrowserTesting.com App
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
crossbrowsertestingreactfile-watcher
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