# Bryan Chan > Software Engineer & Technical Leader Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/bryanchan Impact-focused software engineer with 10+ years experience architecting and building systems that delivered company-wide value. Key leader at two different startups, helping them grow from teams of 6 to over 600 (and $100 million in annual revenue). Successfully developed effective technology, processes, and teams, in rapidly evolving environments, across diverse product domains. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Deepcell, Inc. Jan 2020 – Present ### Funemployed @ Octoturtle Sabbatical Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berlin Area, Germany Hopped out of regular flow for personal growth and rejuvenation. Reconnected with so many friends and family around the world. Understood more about the US and Europe and what I value. Took a pause for multiple health and wellness experiments. Celebrated a life commitment ceremony (aka marriage) with a life partner. ### Freelancer @ N3XTCODER Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berlin Area, Germany • Preparing Lending for Education in Africa Partnership (LEAP) to scale loan grants in Kenya in 2020 with better loan origination and risk modeling tools ### Co-Founder / Chief Architect @ Green Chef Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area We started Green Chef in a cabin in Colorado one weekend, and I shifted focus roughly every six months to the highest impact areas: • Built E-commerce experience that scaled from zero to first 50 orders shipped in under 1 month and to 10,000+ orders a week in 1 year • Created tools that let a small team of chefs efficiently invent 15+ new dishes each week and coordinate food manufacturing and supply chain • Extended our meal plan offerings and order customizability by coordinating strategic launches across systems • Improved inventory accuracy from 80% to 98% by architecting transition to our first item master and scanner-based inventory ### CTO @ Esper Ventures Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA • Rapidly iterated on a dozen iOS mobile apps • Developed effective growth channels in real-world communities ### Unemployed World Traveler @ Southern Hemisphere Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 After four years at a rapidly growing startup, I took three months off to meet and understand more of humanity outside of the Silicon Valley. It was eye-opening to see how quickly the world is changing, and how far we have yet to go. ### Director of Program Management @ Disney Interactive Media Group Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Shared and extended the analytics platform with gaming studios and web studios across Disney Interactive. ### Director of Engineering, BI @ Disney Interactive Media Group Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ### Director of Data Services @ Playdom Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 • Started and grew the data engineering team and analytics platform • More than half the company used our analytics tools each day to make better decisions through running experiments, ad-hoc collaborative analysis, predictive modeling, rich visualization, and real-time product monitoring • Provided easy-to-integrate insight for dozens of games, in seven distributed game studios with a standardized yet extensible event streaming services • Scaled to robustly deliver value from TBs of new data each day using Hadoop and Vertica ### Research Intern @ Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 ## Education ### PhD in Computer Science Stanford University ### MMath in Computer Science University of Waterloo ### BMath in Computer Science, Minor in Pure Mathematics University of Waterloo ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bchanrocks --- Source: https://flows.cv/bryanchan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/bryanchan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12