Sean Chan
Software Engineering Lead at Nextdoor
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSean Chan is a seasoned software engineering lead with 15 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing Android and full-stack products across startups and major platforms like Twitter and Nextdoor. He’s known for shipping production-ready mobile apps from scratch, introducing modern Android practices (Kotlin, RxJava, MVP) and launching the first monetizable product on Periscope. As a manager he has grown teams, authored hiring rubrics, and coached engineers to raise engineering standards while balancing product experimentation and polished UX. His background spans low-level firmware (Qualcomm RIL) to web and feature-flag systems, giving him rare breadth across mobile, backend, and systems engineering. Based in San Jose, he blends a maker’s curiosity—driven by the “creation high” he discovered in college—with pragmatic leadership that delivers measurable product and performance improvements.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (21)
lottie10
ios10
react-native10
after-effects10
animation10
render10
bodymovin10
android10
react10
autovalue8
kml8
geojson7
twitter-api7
google-maps7
twitter6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seanfchan/HeartsWithFriends
Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
Contributions:15 commits in 17 days
seanfchan/lottie-android
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 9 days
renderanimationafter-effectsandroidios
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