Chris Wan

Chris Wan

Designer in San Francisco, He/him

About

I'm a designer and full-stack developer. I’m often freelancing or hacking on things.

Projects

Ongoing

Designing and building a devtool for a low-level ECS library that manages very, very big object simulations for video games, self-driving cars, and other applications.

2022
Game Streaming

Designing a series of streaming tools and applications for gaming companies like Oooh.tv and CVS Gaming.

2020
Business Hub at NewMotion

Designed a platform for managing electric vehicle charging stations on a large enterprise scale.

2018
Booking EVA at Booking.com

Designed a natural language-understanding AI conversational booking agent that can do in-chat conversions.

Side Projects

Ongoing
Cyclopath
  • This is inspired by a near-death experience I had on a long-distance bike ride back in 2021.

  • Now I'm working on a personal bike navigation app that will generate bike routes that optimize for safety and pleasantness

  • Weigh street segments by car traffic volume and velocity, and by the extent that cyclists would be physically separated from motorists

  • Use data from CyclOSM, government agencies, and street view services

  • Focused on the SF Bay Area

2022

A world-popular site that helps people play better Wordle guesses. Solo project. Built with Vue.js, using Netlify as infrastructure.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Designer at Stealth

Working on AI toolks.

2019 — 2020
Senior Designer at NewMotion
Amsterdam

Built tools to run Europe's largest EV charging station network.

2019 — 2019
Designer at Deedmob
Amsterdam

Built a platform to help connect people with opportunities to do good in their communities

2017 — 2019
Designer at Booking.com
Amsterdam

Designed a natural language understanding travel agent. Worked on core web booking experience.

Volunteering

2021 — Now
Member at Noisebridge
2021 — Now
San Francisco

I spend some time volunteering with Openhouse to visit and run errands for LGBT seniors in SF.

Education

2011 — 2016
B.Sc. at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Studied architecture and human-computer interaction. 🏛🤖🖤

2012 — 2012
Tongji University CAUP
Shanghai

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