Summary
Evan Chan is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Pittsburgh with nine years of full‑stack experience that uniquely bridge biomedical research and large‑scale SaaS. He built core management systems at Aurora Solar that underpin the design of over 20 million solar projects, architected a single‑source RBAC with CanCanCan, and led initiatives improving observability, developer productivity, and AI adoption. His background includes hands‑on work with TMS/MRI/robotics and IRB‑level research protocols as well as leading teams building sports management platforms and a Sign Language web app, showing both technical depth and compliance-savvy. A three‑time internal hackathon winner and multi‑award recipient, he combines Rails/GraphQL/Postgres/React expertise with a researcher’s rigor for turning complex domains into production‑grade, auditable systems.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
MS, Biomedical Engineering, MS, Biomedical Engineering at University of Rochester
BS, Biomedical Engineering, BS, Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese, Chinese