Alan W
Head Of Learning Partnerships (APAC) at Mindflight7
Seoul, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan W is a seasoned learning partnerships and training leader with 10+ years crafting education and corporate learning initiatives across APAC, currently heading Learning Partnerships at Mindflight7 from Seoul. He combines business development, account growth and operations experience with a design-thinking approach to create tech-enabled, future-ready learning programs—recent highlights include Google AppSheet bootcamps and national youth tech championships in collaboration with Google APAC and IMDA. A relationship-builder who prioritizes trust and empathy, Alan also founded CloverHearts Singapore to cultivate youth kindness and widened networks across schools, VWOs and corporations through grassroots digital-inclusion work. His background in instructional design and ACTA-certified facilitation is complemented by hands-on product design training from Nanyang Polytechnic, enabling him to bridge pedagogy, technology and stakeholder engagement. Unusually for a learning leader, he contributes to open-source software—fixing core functionality and UI issues in the popular Apache Zeppelin project—demonstrating both technical curiosity and practical full‑stack problem solving. Colleagues describe him as strategic, developer-minded and futurist, focused on scaling impact through trusted partnerships and innovative learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Industrial and Product Design, Diploma, Industrial and Product Design at Nanyang PolytechnicAdvanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA), Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching, Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA), Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching at Institute for Adult Learning Singapore
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
apache-zeppelin10
openzeppelin10
debug10
spark10
python10
scala9
javascript9
big-data9
javas8
java8
ui-design7
front-end-development7
uid7
database5
databases5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/zeppelin
Jun 2016 - Sep 2017
Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 359 PRs, 477 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Apache Zeppelin project. Their work included correcting typos in shell scripts, resolving execution bugs related to paragraph shortcuts, fixing Spark Scala completion issues, and implementing pyspark completion features, demonstrating a focus on the core functionality of the web-based notebook. Furthermore, they addressed UI issues, such as fixing the table header and scrolling bugs and improving the layout of the navigation bar, indicating a focus on both backend and frontend improvements. Their contributions spanned across multiple files, including JavaScript and Java code changes, and they addressed critical issues, such as ensuring correct functionality in multi-interpreter environments.
data-drivendata-analyticsanalyticsnosqlflink
cloverhearts/kotton-css
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
한글이 잘 어울리는 Classless 형태의 간결한 스타일시트
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 23 days
classlesscssreactflexbox
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