Summary
Kevin Chan is a Staff Energy Systems Design and Architecture Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance energy and embedded systems across automotive, aerospace, and consumer hardware. Currently at Tesla, he architects energy products and previously led systems integration in Apple’s Special Projects Group, bringing a blend of hands-on integration and system-level modeling. His background spans BMS testing at SpaceX, sensor and embedded compute work at drive.ai, and powertrain algorithms at GM, reflecting deep cross-domain expertise in energy, controls, and hardware-software integration. An MIT MEng/BS in EECS with a minor in economics, he combines rapid prototyping instincts—“just want to make things go fast”—with rigorous research into self-supervised depth estimation. Notably, he has built and raced an electric racecar as Electrical Systems Lead for MIT Motorsports, demonstrating practical leadership under competitive deadlines.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Minor in Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Minor in Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology