Richard Loa
Group Product Manager, Identity Products at CBC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Loa is a seasoned technologist and product leader with 10 years at CBC designing and delivering large-scale digital experiences and data systems for events like federal elections, the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. Currently Group Product Manager for Identity Products, he previously led behavioural analytics and analytics/search programs that turned audience data into actionable decisions for content, product and marketing teams. He combines hands-on front-end engineering roots with strategic product management—regularly diving into code and creating the open-source Read JS project—to bridge implementation and governance. Known for building robust data collection and governance roadmaps, Richard excels at turning complex tracking requirements into reliable pipelines that inform editorial and product strategy. Based in Old Toronto, he holds a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from McMaster and brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to privacy-aware identity and analytics challenges.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng, Computer Engineering, B. Eng, Computer Engineering at McMaster UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
loawingr/read-js
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Detects reading behaviour on a web page
Contributions:5 releases, 150 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 4 months
behaviourweb-page
loawingr/fsto2016
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
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