Brian Chan
Engineering Manager at Gridware
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Chan is an engineering manager and founder-minded technologist with eight years of experience building resilient, real-time systems for infrastructure and enterprise software. He currently leads Communications and Platform at Gridware, where his team invented a hardware/software approach to scalable fault localization deployed with PG&E and backed by Sequoia and Lowercarbon. Prior roles include senior engineering at Formal, founding Syncro (YC W20), and internships at Facebook and Nokia, reflecting a blend of startup grit and production engineering at scale. He pairs hands-on systems design with people leadership, shipping critical low-latency and safety-focused products for the electrical grid. As a Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund and former second engineer at companies used by Notion, Gusto, and Ramp, he brings product sensibility and early-stage investing perspective. Outside work he’s driven by problem solving, continuous learning, and practical approaches to human safety and success.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
170reputation
25kreached
5answers
2questions
Github Skills (126)
react-firebase10
websocket-client9
graphql-request9
typescript9
api-template9
tarantool8
api8
javascript8
lambda-functions8
spotify8
authentication8
websocket8
website-design8
graphql8
react8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brianjychan/react-twitter-firebase-boilerplate
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
My boilerplate for a basic React/Firebase web app. Comes with Twitter auth flow
Contributions:23 commits, 5 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 months
reactfirebase-webboilerplatereact-firebasefirebase
brianjychan/react-spotify-firebase-boilerplate
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
React boilerplate with Spotify authentication (Authorization Code flow), Firebase, and React Hooks
Contributions:14 commits, 25 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 months
reactjsauthorization-code-flowreact-boilerplateboilerplatecode-flow
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