Ruoya Sheng
Product Manager Lead at ByteDance
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuoya Sheng is a Product Manager Lead and former software engineer with eight years of experience combining AI-driven product strategy and hands-on engineering across startups and global tech firms. She has led cross-functional teams at Meta’s VR/AR org and ByteDance to ship AI MVPs and consumer features—driving measurable UX improvements such as large reductions in memory leaks, crash rates, and faster cold-start times. As a founder of CheetahDS she translated database research into marketable cloud services and helped secure $5M in investment, and earlier built commercial TTS and avatar SDKs for partners like Tencent and Softbank. Comfortable bridging research, product, and engineering, Ruoya pairs deep technical fluency (C++, mobile, backend, AI/ML) with strong product instincts and stakeholder communication. Based in Sunnyvale, she brings entrepreneurial grit and a proven track record of turning advanced AI prototypes into scalable, revenue-generating products.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Economics, Master's degree Economics at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at South China University of TechnologyNational Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
English, Chinese, French, Chinese, FrenchProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryoua/OS
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:24 commits in 3 months
xzgem/Detector-client
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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