Nhan Phan
Head Of Technology at Sonic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNhan Phan is a seasoned technology executive and engineering leader with 11+ years building highly available, distributed backend systems and big data pipelines for both startups and scaled companies. Currently Head of Technology at Metaplex Foundation and an advisor to multiple startups, he combines hands-on architecture—Java/Node/TypeScript, GCP/AWS, Kafka-like distributed primitives—with product sensibility from founding Metaplex Studios and leading engineering at Carbon and Metamarkets. His expertise spans designing resilient service platforms, data acquisition/processing stacks, and developer-friendly toolchains that reduce operational friction. Based in San Francisco and educated in mechatronics and computer science, he has a track record of moving systems from prototype to production in fast-paced environments and frequently advises teams working at the intersection of web3, analytics, and real-time infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng/B.CompSci Mechatronics & Computer Science, B.Eng/B.CompSci Mechatronics & Computer Science at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (30)
solidity10
metaplex10
digital-assets10
solana10
nft10
blockchain10
ethereum9
cosmwasm9
rust9
smart-contracts9
restrict6
js5
nodejs5
sdk5
generator5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nhanphan/dotfiles
Jun 2016 - Apr 2022
My config and settings files
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
configurationvimconfigdotfilessettings
metaplex-foundation/mpl-core-ui
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 10 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year
metaplexmetaplex-corenftsolanasolana-nft
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