Kainian Xie
CEO at MOOCXING
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolKainian Xie is a CEO and seasoned technology executive with 12+ years of experience bridging deep technical expertise in FPGA/embedded systems and strategic business leadership across China’s IT, semiconductor, telecom, and education markets. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and an EMBA/MBA, pairing rigorous research skills with financial, marketing, and investment literacy to position early-stage innovations for market entry and capital. Previously he led Xilinx’s Greater China university program and taught embedded systems and computer architecture at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, giving him rare fluency in academia, industry partnerships, and talent cultivation. As founder of Moocxing he combines hands-on product cycles, open-source hardware education, and blended learning to scale maker programs from K12 through PhD. He is fluent in English and Mandarin, deeply networked across China, and adept at interpreting regulatory shifts and competitive strategy to find pragmatic paths to business impact. Colleagues describe him as creative but pragmatic—more driven to get tangible products into users’ hands than to chase elegance for its own sake.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Automatic control and Information, Ph.D, Automatic control and Information at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityMBA, EMBA, MBA, EMBA at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English
Github Skills (11)
intelligent7
makers6
hardware6
adobe-experience-manager5
embedded5
sprint4
iot4
spring3
osgi3
management3
3d-printing2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
xknxkn/xkntest
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pyqqc/opencv_learn
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:49 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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