Alan Chan
CTO Co-Founder at Straia
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Chan is a seasoned software engineer and founder with about a decade of experience delivering scalable systems and AI-powered features. He is currently cofounder of a stealth startup in San Francisco, translating ambitious product ideas into real-world scale. As founding engineer at EyeTell, he built the first platform to orchestrate multimodal AI for automated content creation, combining LLMs, image/video generation, and voice cloning into real-time comedy skits. At Opendoor, he led payment infrastructure handling $9.6B+ in annual transactions, achieving zero-downtime migrations and a 40% reduction in wire costs while enabling expansion into 20 markets. Earlier at Skillz, he spearheaded adaptive matchmaking for 30M+ users, slashing wait times by 80% during pre-IPO growth. With a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from UC Davis and a backend/data-engineering focus from GreenPark Sports, he brings architectural depth and execution discipline to fast-growing teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (46)
code-completion8
dall-e7
typesafety7
openai-whisper7
code-generator7
sql-builder6
database6
golang6
typesafe6
api6
gpt36
streaming-api6
chatgpt-api6
sql-query6
datamapper6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aghchan/Operating-Systems
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
aghchan/simplegoapp
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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