Alan Chan
CTO & Co-Founder at Straia
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Chan is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems for startups and scale-ups in the Bay Area. He co-founded Straia after architecting multimodal AI pipelines at EyeTell that generated complete videos in seconds, and previously built payment infrastructure at Opendoor processing $9.6B+ annually and real-time event pipelines for major sports leagues. Comfortable from GPU cluster orchestration to low-latency backend services, he has a track record of reducing costs and improving latency—40% wire cost reduction and 80% wait-time cuts among them. Based in San Francisco, he combines a hacker’s curiosity for gadgets and optimization with product-minded engineering that turns complex AI and distributed systems into reliable user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (34)
code-completion8
dall-e7
openai-whisper7
code-generator7
sql-builder6
database6
golang6
typesafe6
api6
streaming-api6
chatgpt-api6
sql-query6
nlp5
sql5
code-generation5
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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