Summary
Melody L is a product leader and founder with 12+ years of experience turning 0→1 innovations into platform-scale products across EdTech, GenAI, consumer mobile, marketplaces, and Enterprise SaaS. She has led distributed, senior teams and driven multi‑million dollar incremental growth by combining a GM mindset with data-driven decision making and hands-on product craftsmanship. At Coursera she reimagined the learner experience and scaled a hands-on learning platform to millions of active users, and today she leads frontier video models and GenAI creative tools at Meta. Melody also invests in and advises mission-driven AI and education startups, founded an AI behavioral health company, and brings a rare blend of technical training (MS in CS), strategy experience from Bain, and operator grit. Outside work she coaches values-led professionals and supports education nonprofits, signaling a persistent focus on impact beyond metrics.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Yale University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English, Spanish