Nicolas Chan
Software Engineer at Luma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Chan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable backend systems, currently at Luma after several impactful roles at Microsoft focused on Yammer’s messaging platform. He combines a UC Berkeley double major in Computer Science and Mathematics with hands-on experience in security, multi-tenant infrastructure, and live cross-region data migration. Known for hunting race conditions, he has driven authentication hardening across microservices, reduced alert noise by over 50%, and mentored junior engineers on system architecture. His background includes research and tooling for high-performance computing at Berkeley—writing Rust plugins and presenting a Telegraf/Grafana analytics stack—and early-career work optimizing Postgres and mission-critical APIs. Active on GitHub, he brings a research-informed, security-minded approach to production engineering and cross-team collaboration. Based in San Francisco, he thrives on complex distributed challenges and pragmatic, measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Mathematics (double major), Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Mathematics (double major) at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (82)
minecraft10
bash10
backup10
linux10
rcon10
minesweeper10
nodejs10
tmux10
counting10
docker10
plugin10
javascript9
anonymize9
headless-browser9
firefox9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nicolaschan/n-language
Nov 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
nicolaschan/TowerDefense
Aug 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
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