Matthew Chan

About

Software engineer with extensive experience in early-stage startups, specializing in building products from zero to one across various domains including supply chain, Web3, and data science. Proven track record in generating revenue, contributing to significant sales, and participating in successful fundraising efforts. Passionate about exploring the latest technologies and pushing the boundaries of innovation.

Experience

• Co-Founder · 1234Labs2024-12-01 –
• Founding Software Engineer · Atomic2023-08-01 – 2024-11-01

  - 1st engineer and hire at a supply chain inventory management startup - Built the initial product from 0 to 1, helped the company go from $0 -> $300K in ARR, 10+ customers (Cometeer, Oobli, Made In, etc) and raise a seed round - Worked on frontend, backend, infrastructure, data pipelines, and time series forecasting simulations - Funded and incubated by DVx ventures: https://www.dvx.ventures/

• Founding Engineer · Stealth Startup2023-01-01 – 2023-06-01

  - 2nd engineer built wallet infrastructure, payments (KYC, fiat <-> crypto), frontend, backend & smart contracts - Early stage Web3 start-up focused on wallet infrastructure (account abstraction & onboarding) - Start-up raised $2.1M for their seed round and eventually failed

• Gap year · Career Break2022-01-01 – 2022-12-01

  Took a year to explore my passions in tech and life. - Completed a Solidity bootcamp (https://0xmacro.com/fellowship) - Contract work for Deloitte and other companies - Built a prototype Web3 messaging application that was used to raise a pre-seed (https://www.hyperbolic.xyz/). The startup eventually raised $20M - Traded crypto and made a return of over six figures. - Attended ETH Denver, ETH Lisbon, and ETH NYC hackathons - Rock climbed a ton, surfed, solo traveled around Europe and the US

• Co-Founder · Zyphr2020-09-01 – 2021-12-01

  - Generated over $400K CAD in revenue and $320K CAD in profit, while enrolled in a full course load - Decided to explore other industries and technologies. Sold my portion of the company. - Clients included: Google, Jane Street, Virgin Hyperloop, UC San Diego, Albemarle, HydroQuebec, Renaissance Macroeconomics, Deloitte and many more - Learn more about Zyphr: https://www.zyphr.ca/

• Solutions Engineer · Plotly2019-03-01 – 2020-04-01

  - First solutions engineer. Learnt how to build fast, talk to customers and close enterprise sales. Wore multiple hats from sales engineering, customer success, and software engineering. - Worked closely with the co-founders, account executives, software engineers and customers. - Contributed to $4M in sales, renewals, and services. - Led 5 figure workshops to data scientists and engineers at Shell, British Petroleum, Albemarle, Boehringer Ingelheim, Hyperloop, and more. - Built and helped customers take their Python web applications from 0 to 1. Designed SQL and noSQL databases, caching (Redis), message passing (Celery), data cleaning/optimization, CI and CD tooling, and more.

• Software Developer Intern · Nuance Communications2019-01-01 – 2019-03-01

  - Built an Android application used to tune and validate NLP models used by car manufacturers (BMW, Daimler, etc)

• Intern Software Engineer · Plotly2018-09-01 – 2018-12-01

  - Worked on an open-source Python library for bioinformatics and drug development for Dash (Dash Bio) - Added a chromosome visualization feature (Ideogram), with help from a member of the Broad Institute - Added a circular visualization graph (Circos) commonly used for visualizing genomic alterations

• Intern Engineer · Plotly2018-05-01 – 2018-08-01

  - Worked on a closed source data acquisition library for Dash (Dash DAQ) - Built 10+ dashboards and wired hardware devices such as: multimeter, stepper motor, PID controller, Arduino robot, robotic arm, etc.

• Junior Materials Technician Intern · Wood2017-05-01 – 2017-06-01

  Material testing lab QA. Switched from mechanical to electrical engineering.

Education

• The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical Engineering

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