Ethan Chan is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable ML and data infrastructure products. As Co-Founder and CEO of Allium, he’s focused on creating the system of record for on-chain finance, serving customers from Grayscale and VISA to Phantom and Magic Eden. Previously he led engineering at Primer.ai, founding the Primer Command product and architecting real-time GPU clustering, semantic search, and active-learning retrieval systems while managing teams of 22 engineers. His background blends academic rigor from an MS at Stanford and teaching/research roles in ML with practical systems work at Microsoft, Cloudera, and Goldman Sachs. He also brings uncommon operational leadership from his time as an infantry platoon commander, which informs his approach to building resilient teams and high-stakes systems. Based in New York, Ethan combines deep technical execution with founder-level product focus to bridge crypto analytics, institutional customers, and production-grade data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
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