Michelle Lai
Associate Product Designer
Canada
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Top SchoolMichelle Lai is an Associate Product Designer with eight years of cross-disciplinary experience blending product design, software engineering, and data-driven UX. She has moved between banking, telecom, retail, and research environments—shipping prototypes and design system components at Rogers, building PowerBI dashboards and facilitating company-wide design-thinking at Shoppers Drug Mart, and automating big data ETL processes as a software engineer at Scotiabank. Comfortable at the intersection of business and engineering (self-described “1/2 business + 1/2 geek”), she leverages research-led methods from her AR/VR academic work to create accessible, stakeholder-aligned solutions. Based in Canada and recognized as a high performer and NSERC award recipient, Michelle brings a practical, metrics-focused approach to reducing barriers to education and improving product experiences.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA French Immersion Program, Bachelor of Arts - BA French Immersion Program at Université du Québec à ChicoutimiBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Industrial (Systems) Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Industrial (Systems) Engineering at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Engineering at Université Lumière Lyon 2
Chinese, Chinese, French, English
Github Skills (24)
ethereum8
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blockchain7
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confidential3
planets3
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bitcoin2
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documentation2
cli2
golang2
monero2
cryptocurrency2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ml-sudocode/veridox
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 9 months
ml-sudocode/analyses
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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