James Chan
GM Of Asia VP Of Technology at RocketRide Games
Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Chan is a strategic operations and technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading studio operations, engineering teams, and R&D across the games industry in Asia and the US. Currently GM of Asia and VP of Technology at RocketRide Games, he blends a founder’s mindset with hands-on technical leadership developed through senior roles at Brace Yourself Games, Yacht Club Games, Telltale, and WayForward. He has a track record of scaling cross-functional teams, building resilient dev infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, and negotiating technical partnerships and middleware for complex projects. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable processes, he has overseen HR, IT, legal, finance and 24/7 development environments for large studios. A long-tenured industry operator based in Malaysia, he pairs business acuity with deep technical credibility and a reputation for pragmatic problem-solving under pressure.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Sonoma State University
English, Malay, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
gamemaker4
compilation4
javascript3
command-line-tool3
nodejs3
cli2
command-line2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lysine/wasp
Oct 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
lysine/Kolling-HTML
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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