Lan Liu
Product Lead at PayPal
Earth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLan Liu is a Product Lead with a decade of experience designing and shipping full-stack products across payments and fintech, currently leading product at PayPal after a senior product role at Cash App focused on BNPL and installment lending. She combines hands-on engineering and design skills with strategic partnerships—most notably collaborating with Google to integrate Afterpay into Google Pay via a virtual card solution—to drive growth, regulatory compliance, and checkout optimization. Lan has repeatedly taken features from ideation to market in regulated environments (AU and US BNPL), balancing business metrics like gross profit and conversion with consumer behavior. Trained at Carnegie Mellon in Software Management, she thrives on tackling hard, creative problems and exploring emerging tech areas such as AI, IoT, ML, and AR/VR. Colleagues describe her as an ideas-first product leader who pairs big-picture vision with practical, data-driven execution.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Management (Focusing on Product Management), Master of Science - MS Software Management (Focusing on Product Management) at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (154)
rdma10
fuse10
blob-storage10
backblaze10
seastar10
gossip10
cpp10
foundationdb10
glusterfs10
transactional10
nosql10
openebs10
persistent-storage10
sql10
high-performance10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Rjerk/ratabase
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Rjerk/scylla
Feb 2021 - Apr 2024
NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
nosqlseastarcassandrasqldata-store
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