Summary
Kangie Chan is a founder and technical leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building web and mobile products, leading distributed teams, and delivering client-facing solutions from concept to production. As Founder & CEO of LodeStream he combines project management, architecture influence, and technical leadership to ship cost-effective web and hybrid mobile applications for clients in the US and China. His background spans QA engineering at enterprise storage and printer companies to co-founding startups, giving him deep expertise in testing automation, embedded and web stacks, and production-grade quality processes. Technically fluent in Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, PHP, SQL and automation scripting (Python/Perl/Shell), he also designs user-facing GUIs and developer tooling. Known for building small-team culture across time zones, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with disciplined test- and process-oriented engineering. Based in Seattle, he balances startup grit with formal study in entrepreneurship (Stanford) and Rails development (Code Fellows).
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Metro State University
Student Ruby on Rails, Student Ruby on Rails at Code Fellows
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford University
Chinese, Malay, Chinese, Mandarin