Xiaokai Wang
Director Of Inbound Study Abroad at DaDao Study in China
Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaokai Wang is an international education strategist and Senior International Program Manager leading Tsinghua PBCSF’s BRI EMBA program, with over a decade driving cross-border executive education and institutional partnerships across the Belt and Road region. He builds "0 to 1" educational pipelines—scaling flagship initiatives from Peking University’s gifted-youth A-Plan to nation‑wide recruitment ecosystems—and combines program design with hands-on operations (PMP-certified). Xiaokai translates Beijing’s shifting policy landscape into market-ready strategies, curating executive learning for international financial leaders and structuring high-value alliances across Southeast Asia. He pairs academic and pedagogical depth (MA from Peking University; multilingual teaching roles in Europe and China) with product and tech-savvy delivery—having contributed to an open-source nginx-upsync-module as a back-end/DevOps engineer. Known for mobilizing elite donors and building digital assessment platforms, he blends philanthropic fundraising, curriculum innovation, and scalable tech to democratize access to high-potential talent. Based in Beijing, he also authors the newsletter “China-bound Education & Tech,” offering strategic intelligence for global leaders navigating China’s education sector.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Food Science and Engineering, Bachelor, Food Science and Engineering at Beijing Forestry UniversityMaster, Teaching Chinese as an International Language, Master, Teaching Chinese as an International Language at Peking UniversityCertificate, Spanish, Certificate, Spanish at Beijing Foreign Studies UniversityCertificate, Teaching Chinese as an International Language, Certificate, Teaching Chinese as an International Language at Beijing Language and Culture University
Chinese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
nginx-module10
consul10
c-programming10
etcd9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
weibocom/nginx-upsync-module
Sep 2015 - May 2022
For http protocol. nginx-upsync-module, sync upstreams from consul or etcd and so on, dynamiclly modify backend-servers attributes(weight, max_fails, down...), needn't reload nginx
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 3 reviews, 153 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Xiaokai primarily focused on developing and maintaining the nginx-upsync-module, a module for dynamically updating upstream servers. Their contributions included implementing features for dynamic consul server resolution, including modifications to the source code to support multi-level directory structures. They also made improvements by removing delay-delete directives and optimizing by dumping and reloading backend server configuration. The user’s work also included build-system improvements and fixing of module-related errors.
nginxetcdreloadfailssync
xiaokai-wang/nginx-discovery
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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