Eliot Chan
Software Consultant at Velma
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEliot Chan is a software consultant and back-end engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and data platforms. He excels at translating product ideas into concrete technical requirements, intentionally clarifying the “boring” details that keep teams aligned and projects on track. His architecture decisions are grounded in pragmatic trade-off analysis—balancing timelines, budgets, and future growth—and he prioritizes educating stakeholders on the costs and benefits of each approach. Eliot has shipped infrastructure and data projects at scale, from designing privacy-conscious analytics pipelines at TunnelBear to reducing onboarding effort for Health tooling at Twitter and prototyping cross-product content remediation. He’s equally focused on mentorship, inclusive hiring, and volunteering around animals and education, and he seeks roles where technical craft meets real-world impact. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a practical, context-aware mindset that turns fuzzy product goals into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Sciences Honours Computer Engineering with Distinction, Bachelor of Applied Sciences Honours Computer Engineering with Distinction at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (51)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eliothxchan/Chan-and-Professor-A-Lecture-Note-Series
May 2015 - Aug 2016
A public repository of all the course notes/summaries/etc I've written.
Contributions:74 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
eliothxchan/Talk-Ontario-Voting-Bot
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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