Alan Chan
Chief Executive Officer at Heptabase
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Chan is the founder and CEO of Heptabase, a London-based startup building tools to accelerate how people form deep understanding and knowledge. With nine years of experience and a background in physics, mathematics and computational/social science studies, he blends analytical rigor with product-driven entrepreneurship to design information systems that scale human learning. He advocates a bold, systems-first thesis: carefully designed information architectures can enable people to create knowledge 100x faster and solve far harder problems. A Y Combinator alumnus, Alan pairs startup operating experience with hands-on leadership in product and vision, steering Heptabase from founding to growth. His trajectory—marked by selective academic pivots and a focus on tooling for cognition—reflects a founder who prioritizes leverage and long-term impact over conventional credentials.
9 years of coding experience
Dropout Computational Science and Social Science, Dropout Computational Science and Social Science at Minerva UniversityBusiness, Business at Y CombinatorDropout Physics and Mathematics, Dropout Physics and Mathematics at National Taiwan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
windows10
hot-module-replacement10
linux10
guitar10
sequencer10
tonejs10
js10
nodejs10
rocket9
mongoose9
macos9
boilerplate8
mongodb8
socket8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Scya597/Web-Full-Stack-Boilerplate
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
The Boilerplate I created to build web app, with support to ReactJS, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB, MySQL, Socket.io, webpack, hot-reload, etc.
Contributions:48 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
mysql-mongodbreloadexpressmongoosereactjs
Scya597/NTUAA.io
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:97 commits, 5 PRs, 102 pushes in 3 years 7 months
io-gamesalesgamenight
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