Hao Xu
VP, Sustainable Social Value VGM, Carbon, Strategy Department
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolHao Xu is a sustainability leader with 11 years of cross-sector experience spanning academia, government, consulting, and corporate strategy, currently serving as VP of Sustainable Social Value and head of Carbon Strategy at Tencent in Beijing. With a PhD in Civil Engineering and advanced degrees in environmental disciplines, he blends deep technical expertise in climate, energy, and life-cycle assessment with hands-on program delivery from roles at PwC, Accenture, McKinsey, and the World Economic Forum. He has led multi-stakeholder urban and corporate decarbonization initiatives, translating complex policy and engineering challenges into practical strategy and operational solutions. Less obvious is his fluency in both rigorous research and software-adjacent development practices—evidenced by contributions improving reliability and test coverage for popular open-source React hooks—bringing a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to sustainable transformation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, Master of Science, Environmental Engineering at University of NottinghamBSc, Environmental Biology, BSc, Environmental Biology at Nanjing UniversityPhD, Civil Engineering, PhD, Civil Engineering at The University of Sheffield
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
hook10
javascript10
frontend10
react-hooks10
react10
testing9
html6
nodejs6
php6
setinterval6
forms6
vue6
axios6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
antonioru/beautiful-react-hooks
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
🔥 A collection of beautiful and (hopefully) useful React hooks to speed-up your components and hooks development 🔥
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Hao primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of React hooks within the `beautiful-react-hooks` repository. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to component unmounting, and implementing checks for browser API support, specifically within the `useInterval`, `useTimeout`, `useConditionalTimeout` and `useViewportSpy` hooks. They improved the library by ensuring proper cleanup of intervals and timeouts on component unmount and/or condition changes, improving the overall stability. Additionally, they added tests to verify that timeouts are correctly cleared when the component unmounts.
reactspeedreact-hooksreact-componentsfront-end
wenzi0github/utils
May 2020 - Dec 2020
常用的工具方法
Contributions:5 releases, 93 commits, 28 pushes in 7 months
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