Alan Lu

Alan Lu is a Senior Product Manager at Spotify, responsible for podcast recommendations on the platform's Home feeds since 2023. Prior to this role, Alan held various positions, including Product Manager at Spotify, where they focused on personalization and voice assistant features, and at Square, where they enhanced growth and engagement for Cash App. Alan co-founded Cherrypick.mobi in 2013, offering mobile applications for shopping and design advice, and created the AI-powered Chrome extension Happy Dog, which gained over 100,000 active users during the COVID lockdown. They also served as a Product Manager at Dessa, where they developed tools for machine learning applications before it was acquired by Square. Alan is currently pursuing a Master of Applied Science in Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.