Benny Chan
Chief Executive Officer at Union Registrars Limited
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Chan is a Hong Kong–based technology executive with a decade of hands-on software engineering experience and a track record of leading enterprise IT, sustainability, and investment initiatives as CEO of Think Technology Solutions and partner at Flair Capital. He blends C-suite strategy across banking, property management and retail with practical backend development, contributing open-source projects that optimize media delivery and Telegram bot automation. His engineering work includes building a Go-based on-the-fly WebP/AVIF image server and resilient media download bots that handle rate limits, hot patching and format conversion—showing a focus on performance and operational robustness. He also leads ESG advisory and share registrar commercial functions, bridging technical delivery with regulatory and sustainability practice. Fluent in both product delivery and investor-facing roles, he uniquely pairs entrepreneurial leadership with contributor-level coding chops. An understated thread through his profile is a user-centered mindset—building tools that anticipate real-world failure modes and improve reliability for end users.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
telegram-vc-bot10
yt-dlp10
python10
celery10
ffmpeg10
ytdl10
youtube10
webscraping10
go10
api10
telegram-bot10
r-telegram-bot10
api-design9
image-processing9
integrations9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tgbot-collection/YYeTsBot
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
🎬 人人影视 机器人和网站，包含人人影视全部资源以及众多网友的网盘分享
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 331 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Benny's commits primarily involve developing and maintaining the backend functionality of the Telegram bot. They worked on implementing and modifying the bot's core logic using Python and the Telebot library. The user also focused on integrating the bot with the resource provider, including web scraping, parsing HTML content, and handling data storage. Additionally, they have been involved in setting up the configuration and deployment of the project, as well as implementing features like a database dump.
telegram-botn8nmoviestv-showsbot
tgbot-collection/ytdlbot
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Download videos from Youtube and other platforms through a Telegram Bot
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 255 commits, 112 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Benny contributed to the development of a Telegram bot for downloading videos from YouTube and other platforms. Their work involved implementing core functionalities such as downloading videos using `yt-dlp`, converting audio formats, and handling user requests. The user also focused on improving the user interface by adding a visual progress bar and added a "direct download" feature to broaden its capabilities. The user also made enhancements to the bot's robustness by adding rate limiting, code for hot patching, and file size limits to prevent abuse, as well as adding code for checking membership to channels and general code refactoring.
telegram-botpythonvideosbotplatforms
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