Ziyao Xu
Senior Product Designer at ThinkingData
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZiyao Xu is a Senior Product Manager and designer-engineer hybrid based in Boston with 11 years of experience building user-focused web and mobile products. He blends hands-on UX and front-end engineering—spanning Ionic/Angular, React-style single-page apps, and RESTful backends—with product strategy to ship practical, scalable features at startups and enterprise firms. His background includes UX design roles and full-stack work at firms like Fidelity and Angelo Gordon, where he built company-wide utility portals and investor education apps. Comfortable moving between prototyping, usability testing, and technical implementation, he excels at turning complex workflows into elegant interfaces. Ziyao’s cross-disciplinary training (WPI CS with a UX Academy background) gives him a rare ability to translate business needs into both pixel-level designs and production-ready code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
UX Academy, UX + UI Design, UX Academy, UX + UI Design at DesignlabBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Minor in Business, Management Information System, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Minor in Business, Management Information System at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chinese, English, German
Github Skills (33)
css10
nodejs10
javascript9
vue-styleguidist9
ruby9
ruby-on-rails9
html9
web-development8
tds7
directive6
react6
designer6
responsive6
frontend5
vuejs25
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MrJoeXu/SixesWild
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:49 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
MrJoeXu/Hanto-Project
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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