# Franklin Chian

> Software Engineer @ Surge AI

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/franklin

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Surge AI
Jan 2023 – Present
Human intelligence for AGI

### Software Engineer @ Instabase
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Solution Management Team

Instabase helps enterprises unlock the full potential of their unstructured data spread across a vast landscape of operational systems and data stores. Powered by generative AI and agentic enterprise search, its platform intelligently analyzes, structures, and transforms data into immediately actionable business insights.

### Software Engineer @ Gusto
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
Payments Engineering

Gusto is a human resources and payroll software startup that provides an all-in-one platform for managing payroll, benefits, and team management, primarily targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
IoT Sitewise

### Founder @ ZGenLearning
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Xi‘an, Shaanxi, China
Spent a summer in Xi'an, China and built my own education business focused on improving English fluency rates and preparing students to study abroad to the US. Created a unique curriculum emphasizing the importance of speaking and taught classes of 6-8 students over the summer. Had a lot of fun getting out of my comfort zone designing a website, marketing on the street, and using Mandarin to teach the courses.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in EECS
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Bachelor of Science - BS
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/franklin-chian

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Last updated: 2026-03-20