Simona Liao
Product Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimona Liao is a product manager at Microsoft with six years of experience bridging research, engineering, and user-centered product work in developer tools and VR safety. With a strong academic foundation (BS and MS in Computer Science from University of Washington, GPA ~3.95), she has shipped developer-facing features at Microsoft—including contributions to migration tooling and Copilot completions—and translated user research into product specs from internships to full-time roles. Her research at UW on sexual harassment in VR games combined feminist theory with cross-cultural HCI literature reviews, revealing a rare blend of social-science rigor and technical fluency. Simona’s background in software engineering, product specification, and qualitative research enables her to design safer, more inclusive experiences for diverse communities while driving measurable product improvements.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.95, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.95 at University of Washington
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
fsharp10
dotnet10
csharp10
visual-studio-extension10
dotnet-core10
scripting9
windows8
visual-studio-for-mac8
vibration7
haptic-feedback7
visual-studio-mac7
proximity6
visual-studio6
microsoft5
uncertainty5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SimonaLiao/upgrade-assistant
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
A tool to assist developers in upgrading .NET Framework applications to .NET 6 and beyond
Contributions:56 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
dotnetnet-frameworkassistc-sharpcsharp
SimonaLiao/docs
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
This repository contains .NET Documentation.
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
dotnetcsharprollbackdotnet-core
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