Kalan Chan
Software Engineer at Sourcegraph
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKalan Chan is a software engineer in Vancouver with four years of experience building cloud-native applications and improving developer experience at Sourcegraph. He focuses on cloud architecture, security, and design while contributing full‑stack to Sourcegraph’s public snapshot — touching both frontend and backend, fixing startup and dependency issues, and automating embedding generation for Cody, Sourcegraph’s Code AI platform. His career began in field operations and progressed through infrastructure, API integrations, and cloud DevOps roles at TELUS, giving him uncommon hands-on operational context for production systems. He holds a Bachelor's from the University of Alberta and blends practical troubleshooting with a commitment to secure, maintainable developer workflows.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Alberta
Github Skills (19)
code-search10
code-intelligence10
co10
go9
documentations8
graphql8
documentation8
wordpress-graphql8
wp-graphql8
typescript37
typescript27
typescript7
ci-cd7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:141 reviews, 2 commits, 41 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kalan contributed to both frontend and backend aspects of the Sourcegraph repository. They addressed errors in the `sg_start` function and reverted changes related to MinIO and Go version updates, indicating involvement in system setup and dependency management. They also automated the embedding list generation and updated Cody installation URLs, demonstrating frontend and documentation-related code changes.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
kalanchan/multi-k8s
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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