AI Agent Architect · Full-stack Engineer · AI Builder. Auckland, New Zealand.
I architect AI agents, ship full-stack platforms end-to-end, and teach others to do the same. Building at the intersection of AI, cultural technology, and women's health.
Open to founding-team / staff-IC / AI architecture engagements starting Q3 2026.
Featured in THISDAYLIVE · PulseMCP · WeChat (FemTech Weekend) · 小宇宙FM (Xiaoyuzhou).
↑ Banner & pills made with my open-source gradient-svg-generator — try it on your own README.
For Riria (Missy) Te Kanawa (independent research commission · ASB Bank).
ASB Bank executive research pilot — NZ's first Māori-cultural AI financial-wellness agent (Te Whare Tapa Whā in schema, not UI); 19 users over 4 months with bilingual te reo Māori voice coaching, proving culturally-native AI engages communities mainstream FinTech underserves.
For She Sharp (NZ charitable trust CC57025, NZBN 9429047458970, founded 4 June 2019 by Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh / McCauley — community programming since 2014).
Digitized and AI-upgraded NZ's leading women-in-STEM nonprofit (2,200+ members, 8,000+ supported) — 86.6% solo-built platform with AI mentor matching, three role dashboards, and a Slack automation stack that replaced hours of volunteer manual work.
For GAVIGO Inc. (Delaware C-Corp; Founder & CEO: Saba Gecgil).
Founding-engineer MVP for a Delaware startup — sub-millisecond interactive-content activation (p50 <1 ms, 84.6% warm-pool hit) on Kubernetes, production-validated by Google for Startups + NVIDIA Inception; 353/360 commits (98%) solo as Founding Principal Engineer.
For Open source (MIT) — solo author and maintainer.
Earliest-ecosystem MCP server (shipped 35 days after Anthropic's Nov 2024 MCP launch) — now listed across 15+ MCP catalogs, earned PulseMCP's 'Top Pick' badge and Glama's A-rating, used by AI assistants worldwide for current-events search.
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FanFic Lab |
Adaptive LangGraph agent for Chinese fanfiction creators — 7-node quality-loop graph over a hand-curated Honkai: Star Rail canon + pgvector RAG, plus a follower/comment/recommendation community shipped as a lean two-service Docker stack self-hosted via DigitalOcean + Coolify.  |
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Vitex | Agent-ready AI career agent — an 8-step pipeline turns a JD + free-text background into a tailored ATS-optimised resume + cover letter in ~30s, usable over a public HTTP API, a CLI, and an MCP server; outcome-based billing (only on success), Typst PDF compile <100ms.   |
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echook (Echo + Hook)   |
Audio-feedback hook system for Claude Code / Cursor / Codex — 26 hook events, 2 themes, context-window status line with quota bars, 42 releases, 139 tests on triple-platform CI, plus a Remotion-built promo video shipped entirely in code.    |
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gradient-svg-generator (Chromaflow) | 340+ parametric animated-SVG templates served as live XML via Vercel Edge — the open-source visual engine powering every badge in this README. 273 solo commits across 18 months, with deliberate 'anti-LLM-hype' content audits to keep marketing numbers honest.   |
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LinkedIn Jobs Search | Dual-audience job platform serving both humans (web UI) and AI agents (11 MCP tools + HTTP API + CLI) as equal-weight surfaces — outcome-metered usage events via Stripe, Pulumi CrossGuard guardrails, single-Worker monolith on Cloudflare. 259 commits across 17 months.  |
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LibraryOS | Multi-tenant library-management SaaS with deliberate regional accessibility design — survived two architectural pivots (single→multi-tenant, Vercel→Cloudflare Workers), 4-tier access model, ready for community libraries, small schools, and makerspaces.   |
More AI agents & tools · More open-source products · Creative & experiments
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AI Image Generator | Full-stack text-to-image SaaS pivoted onto Cloudflare Workers AI's FLUX.1 Schnell free tier (100k req/day) |
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Typst Skill for Claude Code | Professional PDF generation via Claude Code with 9 ready-to-use templates |
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Chinese Redefine 汉语新解 | 汉语新解 |
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AI Programming Education Platform (programming.chanmeng.org) | Bilingual Docusaurus teaching platform |
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Event Q&A AI Template | Industry-partnered AI event assistant for the Aotearoa AI Hackathon Festival |
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SunoStats | SunoStats |
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FriendScope | Evidence-based 4-domain relationship assessment tool (friendship / family / romantic / workplace) where 100% of user data never leaves the browser |
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SendJoy | No-code visual abstraction layer over the Resend API |
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server-google-jobs | Companion early-MCP Google Jobs server (Dec 31 2024, 36 days post-MCP-launch) |
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Te Pa Tiaki | A 3D tower-defense game rendered 100% with CSS 3D transforms |
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TikTok Shop Go Template | Production-shape Go + Gin + MySQL + Redis e-commerce backend template |
↑ Banner via my gradient-svg-generator · cards via my github-readme-suno-cards — both open-source, try them on your README.
1 Architect production AI agents. Multi-model orchestration, LangGraph + CopilotKit + MCP, bilingual cultural framing where domain concepts live in the schema, not in UI stickers.
2 Ship full-stack platforms end-to-end. Next.js + Supabase + Stripe + Drizzle SaaS that survives architectural pivots — multi-tenant isolation, RLS, cross-cloud Kubernetes with sub-millisecond p50 activation latency.
3 Build multi-surface AI infrastructure and teach it. Single backend, multiple surfaces (React SPA + HTTP API + MCP + CLI) with feature parity. Teaching doctrine: natural language is the source code.
↑ Banner via my gradient-svg-generator · flag map via my github-visitor-counter — both open-source, try them on your README.
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FemTech Weekend Website | Gen-2 platform (Docusaurus, a deliberate rewrite away from Next.js for editorial focus) currently operating Shanghai Summit 2026 with 16 confirmed speakers including FemTech term originator Ida Tin — 97.2% solo on 544 commits, hosting 2 original research reports.  |
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Eatropolis Website |
Auckland Eatropolis festival (30+ chefs, Shed 10) — signed commission with Tātaki Auckland Unlimited (Council Events) review gates, WCAG 2.2 AA, streaming OpenAI chat + voice assistant, and 1,000-visitor load test; solo-built in 9 days. |
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HER WAKA | Employment-readiness teaching platform built for the She Sharp × NZ Ministry of Social Development HER WAKA programme at academyEX Auckland — 4 workshops authored solo + 8+ self-paced tutorials across three difficulty tiers.  |
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FreePeriod Website | Bilingual period-poverty advocacy site for a Guangzhou HKUST(GZ)-incubated startup — integrated Google Maps dispenser directory helping end-users locate menstrual-access resources in underserved markets. |
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Forward with Her Mentorship Programme Website | Bilingual EN/CN promo site for the Forward with Her mentorship programme — 3D-rendered landing page (Three.js + Cloudflare Pages) supporting the 360+-mentor / 800+-mentee cohort that produced 7 of Chan's LinkedIn testimonials.  |
- AI Agent Architect at Engram · May 2026 -- Present
Recruited by Claude itself — when Engram's founder asked the LLM to surface an AI architect for their Anthropic Partner Network track, Chan was the recommendation. Founder Luka Madzarac publicly confirmed it — empirical proof that GEO + open-source portfolios work. - AI Instructor & Mentor at TechNest Community · Apr 2026 -- Present
TechNest's first AI-specialised mentorship track — sole instructor of a 12-week prompt-first curriculum with weekly live classes, recordings, an in-course RAG assistant, and capstone voting. Students ship portfolio-grade AI apps by week 8 on a 95.7%-solo platform. - Founding Principal Engineer, Activation, Execution & AI Systems (prev. Core Engineer) at Gavigo · Oct 2025 -- Present
Promoted from Core Engineer to Founding Principal Engineer across three formalised contract iterations; owns the Intelligence Layer end-to-end (98% solo on 353 commits) with a contractually protected technical domain. - Senior Full Stack Engineer & Website Team Lead at She Sharp · Jul 2025 -- Present
Recruited directly by founder Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh as the senior AI + full-stack capability She Sharp didn't have in-house; led the cutover from Webflow to the new platform via a custom migration crawler preserving 10+ years of legacy content for 2,200+ members. - Chief Technology Officer at FemTech Weekend · Mar 2025 -- Present
Sole technical leader and co-architect with the founder; tenure spans two platform generations (Next.js Gen-1 → Docusaurus Gen-2 editorial rewrite), serving as the sole engineering voice across all org events and the 2026 summit cycle.
Previously: Sanicle (CTO), FreePeriod (CTO), Forward With Her (mentor), ByteDance (青训营), CORDE (Lincoln industry placement), Aotearoa Infinite Academy.
Credentials
- UN Women CSW 69 Speaker — Beyond Beijing 30 Conference, UN Headquarters NYC (Mar 14, 2025)
- Master of Applied Computing with Distinction — Lincoln University, New Zealand (Dean's List, top 5%)
- Outstanding Mentor Award — AI Hackathon Festival 2025 (AI Forum NZ × She Sharp × AUT)
❝ Chan has been one of the most important engineering contributors to GAVIGO during a demanding early stage. What stands out about Chan is not only his technical ability, but the way he turns ambiguous founder-level direction into working systems, measurable proof, and reliable product surfaces. ❞
— Saba Gecgil · Founder & CEO at GAVIGO Inc. (Activation & Execution Layer for Interactive Software); managed Chan directly during the GAVIGO engagement · read full recommendation →
A minimalist. Subtraction for life, addition for thought.
↑ Pills & footer banner made with my gradient-svg-generator. Design tokens & voice principles → brand system.
↑ Animated cover built with my open-source svg-animation-studio — describe an animation in natural language, get a self-contained looping SVG. Try it on your own README.
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