Shunfa Xu

Introduction

Shunfa serves Thoughtworks as a Senior Consultant, Business Analyst with 9 years of experience in offshore product delivery. He is currently focusing on To-B product innovation. He was a full stack developer (Ruby + React JavaScript) from 2013 to 2018, then played the Business Analyst / Product Manager role from 2018.

During his 9 years experience of offshore product delivery, he served clients across several industries, including Telecom, Automobile, Airline, Global Talent Mobility, Tax, Immigration, NGO and Field Service, engaged in various products & projects, ranging from technical projects, such as Microservices & Cloud, to more product focused ones, e.g. Legacy system modernization, SaaS replatform, 0-1 product innovation.

Overall, he is an innovative Product Manager / Business Analyst, with a solid technical background, experienced in various industries & business domains.

Experience

  • Product Manager, Senior Consultant, Thoughtworks Inc., 2024/05/27 - Present

  • Business Analyst, Senior Consultant, Thoughtworks Software Technologies (Wuhan) LTD., 2020/03/01 - 2024/05/26

  • Business Analyst, Consultant, Thoughtworks Software Technologies (Wuhan) LTD., 2019/02/26 - 2020/02/29

  • Developer, Consultant, Thoughtworks Software Technologies (Wuhan) LTD., 2016/07/04 - 2019/02/25

  • Software Developer - Ruby, ActiveNetwork (Chengdu) Co., Ltd., 2015/03/23 - 2016/06/23

  • Junior Software Developer - Ruby, Beijing Shinetech Technology Development Co., Ltd. Wuhan Branch, 2013/07/01 - 2015/02/27

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering, Automation, Jianghan University, 2009/09/01 - 2013/06/30

Awards/Certifications

  • Certified New Product Development Professional (No. C182148), awarded by PDMA Certification Committee on Sep 24th, 2022.

Books/Publications Authored

  • Co-translator of Austin Govella’s book Collaborative Product Design (ISBN: 9787519853297), published in June 2021.

Open Source Projects

  • Designer and developer of GoPlan Web, an open source web application for task planning.

Languages

  • Mandarin Chinese: native
  • English: fluent