Summary
Benedict Chan is a seasoned customer reliability and technical support leader based in Sydney with 14 years of experience in APJ roles across Kong, Splunk, Tableau, Salesforce, and Oracle. He combines an MBA and CompTIA Security+ with deep hands-on expertise in enterprise support, incident resolution, and customer-facing technical account management. At Kong he scaled reliability operations for regional customers, leveraging a background that spans databases, middleware, and cloud-native platforms dating back to Informix and Vignette. Known for translating complex technical issues into clear operational playbooks, he also mentors teams and builds knowledge-base assets that improve customer outcomes. His career shows a rare blend of product-facing account management and low-level systems troubleshooting, enabling him to bridge engineering and business priorities. Based in APJ, he brings institutional knowledge of global enterprise deployments and a pragmatic focus on reliability and customer trust.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at AGSM @ UNSW Business School
Post-graduate Diploma in Software Technology, Post-graduate Diploma in Software Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Certificate II in Mandarin, Certificate II in Mandarin at TAFE NSW
UNSW Sydney
English, Chinese, Chinese