Calvin Chan
CEO & Founder at Legitimate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Chan is a founder and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building product-led startups and high-traffic web3 and consumer platforms from New York. As CEO and Founder of Legitimate, he combines NFC and blockchain to connect physical products to verifiable digital experiences, scaling both hardware integrations and cloud-native services. Previously he shipped production Ethereum integrations and Solidity contracts at AirSwap and led full-stack and platform modernization efforts at Skillshare, mentoring engineers and introducing design systems and CI/CD practices. He also advises early-stage startups on architecture, HIPAA compliance, and product-led engineering workflows, reflecting a hands-on approach from prototyping to deploy. A UCLA CS alumnus with internships at MongoDB and Yahoo, he has a track record of squeezing large performance gains from systems-level work and translating that into product velocity.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
South Pasadena High SchoolChrome Academic Web Technology and Web Development, Chrome Academic Web Technology and Web Development at Google Chrome AcademyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (96)
sketch10
sketch-app10
mongodb10
sketch-plugin10
react-sketchapp9
nosql9
database9
adobe-xd9
testing9
render9
styled-components9
webpack9
react9
mongodb-database9
reservation-system9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thecalvinchan/config
Mar 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years
vic317yeh/ebay-auction
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 30 pushes in 1 month
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