Jian Cai
Head Of Operation Excellence
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
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Top SchoolJian Cai is a digital economy leader with 11 years of experience shaping data-driven strategy, operations and transformation across Chinese and international businesses. Currently Head of Operation Excellence at Alibaba Group, he has led traffic, assortment, supply chain and PMO initiatives while previously building data and analytics capabilities for Sun Art and HEMA/Freshippo. His background spans top-tier consulting at McKinsey and BCG and strategic roles in fintech and incubation, bringing a rare combination of hands-on operating rigor and big-picture digital strategy. Trilingual in Mandarin, English and French, Jian pairs technical foundations from Tsinghua and Arts et Métiers with an INSEAD MBA to navigate multicultural teams and complex stakeholder environments. Known for turning analytics into scalable pilots and operations, he often bridges BI/AI applications with go-to-market incubation rather than staying solely in analytics. Based in Hangzhou, he blends consulting discipline with product-focused execution to accelerate digital transformation at scale.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy, Finance, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Strategy, Finance at INSEADB.Sc, Electrical Engineering, B.Sc, Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityM.Eng. (Ingénieur), Industrial Engineering, M.Eng. (Ingénieur), Industrial Engineering at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (11)
java9
http8
restful8
grpc8
high-performance7
distributed-systems7
microservices7
rpc7
apache6
netty6
service-mesh5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kunshuo/jvm-demo
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
kunshuo/common-utils
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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