Alson Chan
Product at Datadog
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlson Chan is a product-focused technologist with six years of experience translating advanced research and cloud engineering into customer-facing products. Based in Palo Alto, he has moved between high-impact roles at Google Cloud, Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technologies Center, Tesla, and now Datadog where he works on cloud integrations. His background spans software engineering, computer vision moonshots, and product ownership for connectivity and energy products, giving him a rare blend of systems-level engineering and market-facing product judgment. He’s also sampled finance and venture investing through short stints in Technology M&A and interactive entertainment investing, which sharpened his strategic and commercial instincts. A UC Berkeley EECS and data science graduate, Alson combines rigorous technical training with practical experience shipping products across infrastructure, vehicles, and energy domains. Notably, his career shows a pattern of moving between deep research projects and product teams—bridging long-term innovation with immediate customer value.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Data Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyGunn High School
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Github Skills (9)
hugo9
datadog9
documentation8
application8
data-structures6
llm5
fine-tuning5
vector-database5
gpt4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AlsonC/PokerPostFlopProbabilities
Apr 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
AlsonC/steam-roblox
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Streamlit app visualization for weekly highlights of steam top 100 sellars and roblox top 50 experiences. Data is scraped weekly from steamcharts and romonitor... scrapers not included in this repo.
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
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