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).}

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_{Production systems I led end-to-end for companies and nonprofits.}

_{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.

_{↳ Related: GAVIGO Website ↗}

_{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.

_{↳ Related: HER WAKA ↗  ·  Aotearoa AI Hackathon 2026 ↗  ·  Touch the World, Talk to Code ↗}

_{For FemTech Weekend (Chengdu, China; founded 2024 by Zhu Yihan; positioned publicly as China's representative for cross-border women's-health initiatives).}

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.

_{For Chow Luck Club Ltd — Commissioning client for eatropolis-website (Auckland, NZ).}

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.

_{Tools and products I build and maintain in the open.}

	Google News MCP Server	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.
	echook (Echo + Hook)	AI-operated hook system for Claude Code / Cursor / Codex, driven entirely by natural language — 39 hook events across three harnesses from one source, a 29-segment context-window status line, audio/TTS/webhook channels, 200+ tests on triple-platform CI. ~76 stars, v6.3.3.
	ArchCanvas	An AI design agent for architects that productizes Chan's own ArchLang DSL — it writes parametric ArchLang (not freehand SVG) compiled to real dimensioned plans, with grounded GPT-Image renderings, a zoomable canvas, a review mode, and git-repo export. Solo-built, 269 commits.
	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.
	AI Programming Education Platform (programming.chanmeng.org)	Public teaching platform running 5 coexisting cohort versions — three concurrent 2026 tracks (TechNest · Peyvand · HER WAKA) plus 2025 & 2024 — with an in-course RAG assistant on Cloudflare Workers indexing ~4,800 bilingual doc chunks across the whole corpus.

	ArchLang	An original declarative floor-plan language Chan invented — compiling to professional dimensioned plans (Typst/LaTeX for architecture). Zero-dependency isomorphic TypeScript with errors-as-data, soundness linting, and circulation modeling; the engine behind ArchCanvas.
	gradient-svg-generator (Chromaflow)	340+ parametric animated-SVG templates served as live XML via Vercel serverless — the open-source visual engine powering every badge in this README. 283 solo commits across 18 months, with deliberate 'anti-LLM-hype' content audits to keep marketing numbers honest.
	Seismophone	Seismophone (repo: sunostats) — an independent observatory for AI music that publishes what the platforms won't: a public Suno remix-lineage graph recovered from a redaction gap in Suno's own API, now sealed and un-reproducible. Solo-built, self-hosted.

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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.

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• 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.

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