Lester Chan
Engineering Manager II, Full Stack at WordPress
Singapore
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Top SchoolLester Chan is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading distributed full-stack teams at Grab, currently scaling high-throughput payments infrastructure across eight countries. He blends hands-on engineering and people leadership, having progressed from senior full-stack engineer to Engineering Manager II while overseeing GrabLink and GrabPay integrations. A long-time WordPress plugin author and founder of lesterchan.net, he has built widely used open-source tools (millions of downloads) and continues to blog about tech and product. His background spans startups and media (Head of Engineering at Tech in Asia) to large-scale fintech, giving him a rare mix of product sensibility, platform engineering expertise, and a practical developer-first mindset.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing (Honors), Information Systems, Specialized in Services Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), Bachelor of Computing (Honors), Information Systems, Specialized in Services Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) at National University of SingaporeDiploma in Multimedia Technology, Diploma in Multimedia Technology at Singapore Polytechnic
English, Chinese, hokkien
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
slack-bot10
displays10
nav10
operation10
backup-database10
telegram10
backup10
pagination10
database-management10
ip-range10
paging10
shortcode10
wordpress10
optimizer10
laravel10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lesterchan/wp-showhide
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
Allows you to embed content within your blog post via WordPress ShortCode API and toggling the visibility of the cotent via a link.
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 9 years 10 months
apiwordpress-shortcodeshortcodewordpressembed-content
lesterchan/wp-wap
Apr 2013 - Feb 2022
Contributions:24 commits, 15 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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