John Shao
Tencent Regional Head (Middle East) Of International Finanacial Public Affairs
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
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Top SchoolJohn Shao is a fintech and payments executive with nine years of focused experience building cross-border payment operations, licensing and regulatory relationships across APAC and the Middle East. Currently Tencent’s Regional Head for Middle East International Financial Public Affairs, he specializes in engaging central banks and regulators, managing PSP licenses, and researching emerging payment technologies including AI-driven payments and stablecoins. He previously founded and scaled a MAS-licensed fintech in Singapore, leading multi-disciplinary teams to serve Tencent’s digital entertainment ecosystem across Southeast Asia. His background spans card networks, global vendors and bank partnerships—from UnionPay and Mastercard to Huawei and Worldpay—giving him deep commercial and technical fluency in payments integration and risk/compliance. Fluent in Arabic and trained with an MBA in finance, he blends regional cultural insight with regulatory strategy to unlock market entry and product localization. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic, independent thinker—“a free developer” at heart—who combines hands-on product launch experience with high-level policy advocacy.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Financial MBA, MBA, Financial MBA at 上海交通大学Bachelor's degree, Arabic, Bachelor's degree, Arabic at 北京外国语大学
Chinese, Chinese, English, Arabic
Github Skills (13)
translation7
translate7
localization7
javascript3
windows1
in-memory-database1
linux1
macos1
cross-platform1
nodejs1
desktop-application1
electron1
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shaojianyong/wx_payment_agent
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
shaojianyong/eztrans
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
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Contributions:626 commits, 607 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
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