Layla Xu
Partner Manager For Messaging, APAC at Meta
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolLayla Xu is a seasoned partner and product leader with 12 years’ experience building developer and business ecosystems across APAC, currently driving strategic growth for Meta’s Business Messaging platform in Greater China and Southeast Asia. She combines deep product instincts from early Alibaba roles and a successful hardware startup (co-founder of a smart wristband) with enterprise-level partner management, negotiating complex C-suite deals and influencing roadmaps across cross-functional teams. Her background spans product, operations, and algorithm-led R&D, and she’s led flagship programs like Facebook’s Accelerator Shanghai and regional startup initiatives. Based in Singapore, Layla blends academic rigor from Wuhan University and UCLA’s Human Complex Systems program with hands-on startup grit, making her adept at turning platform insights into scalable commercial outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor Management Science, Doctor Management Science at Wuhan UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Italian, English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (5)
deep-learning5
keras5
machine-learning4
crawler3
tensorflow3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Ginshell/Ginshell.github.io
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:33 commits in 5 months
Ginshell/bongSDK-android
May 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
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