Xihua Duan

Organized Team Leader builds positive rapport, inspire trust and guide teams toward achievement of organizational goals. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.

• Alibaba, 05/01/21, 04/30/22, Head of Open Source Program Office & Java Engineering Team, Facilitate and coordinate the excellent operation of open source efforts inside Alibaba group. Define the promote the Java engineering guidelines inside Alibaba to improve the Java engineering level.
• Alibaba, 08/01/19, 05/31/21, Senior Architect & Lead of Security Team under Risk Department, Leading the data security team that develops relevant products, platforms to support data security management & gov’t administration responsiveness in ALSC where the market competition is extremely fierce and the data leakage was once very severe. Having taken the general architect role for Risk Control and Security Center since S2 FY21.
• Serial Entrepreneur, 07/01/14, 08/31/19, Founder & CTO, Ventured in 4 different directions: smart hardware, location-based tourism information service, s2b2c + Fintech and blockchain
• AutoNavi (Subsidiary of Alibaba), 04/01/14, 06/30/15, Program Director, Directly reported to company COO In charge of the overall collaboration with Apple & Google in next-generational map data collection and processing, including business negotiation, financial modeling, forming & coordination of virtual taskforces tolling up to 200 members across many functions, internal capability evaluation & cultivation, planning, status monitoring & interference, data delivery, etc. The directions were automated 3D reconstruction (Apple name “FlyOvers”) and street view After these 2 projects were terminated, combed out the invested resources, formed and managed a virtual team comprise of about 100 members to transform them to advanced traditional map data production. Works included production space allocation and data center setup, data turn-around logic design, new pipeline design & tool chain development and upgrading. This new pipeline took over all AutoNavi map data collection from then on
• Intel, 08/01/12, 04/30/14, Solution Architect @ PCCG, Aligning to
• ME UX directions defined by PCCG, match-made local partners, defined features，introduced the supportive Intel technologies, and coordinated cross geo efforts (10 or so for each usage, and backed by 100+ engineers), to land related PC usages. Completed usage included iFlyTek PC Voice Assistants, hi-definition video chat for QQ, and the WiDi feature of MI OTT and TV
• Intel, 08/01/08, 07/31/12, Strategic Planner @ SSG/DRD, Improve the visibility and develop the core competence of local team by facilitating BKM exchange, project cooperation, and engineer rotation, etc. across geos Based on the roadmap of all Intel platforms and the understanding of local software ecosystem, define the software holistic ecosystem enabling plan for account management, Intel Software College, Intel Developer Network, software park, application engineering, etc. As the overall technical interface, influencing CTOs & other decision makers of major partners to adopt Intel platform technologies, and incubated new applications Directly reported to the GM of DRD China (144 members)
• Intel, 08/01/04, 08/31/08, Manager of Enterprise AE Team @ SSG/DRD, Formed, developed and managed an engineering team of 8 engineers, responsible to the technical supports to top notched local enterprise, internet and healthcare software partners, work scope covered platform migration, performance optimization/tuning, and configuration sizing, etc.
• Intel, 12/01/03, 08/31/04, Enterprise Application Engineer @ SSG, As the one of initial two team members, took care of technical collaboration with UFIDA and Neusoft, including platform migration, performance optimization/tuning and configuration sizing, etc.
• DealEasy, 07/01/02, 12/31/03, Senior Software Engineer & Team Manager, Led a team to develop the vertical internet application for customers based in Japan and China.