Tei Kai (Michael) Chen

Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Founder

Taipei, Taiwan · pks.lc89@gmail.com · github.com/alsey89

Summary

Full-stack software engineer and technical founder building SaaS products from zero to paying customers. 4+ years shipping production software across health tech, IoT, and enterprise tools. I architect systems, lead small teams, and make hard tradeoffs between technical debt and speed to market. Background in medicine gives me domain expertise for health-focused products.

Technical Skills

Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust · Nuxt.js/Vue, Tailwind · PostgreSQL, MongoDB · Docker, CI/CD · AWS, Cloudflare Workers/KV/D1 · IoT pipelines, Edge computing

Experience

Cofounder & Lead Engineer | 1001 Ltd | Oct 2025 – Present

Building and shipping multiple SaaS products

• Projectyl: Collaboration and project management app that supports tasks, targets, real time chat, rich text documents and internal references at all levels. Architected edge-first distributed system using TypeScript backend, D1 database and Nuxt frontend on Cloudflare infrastructure.
• Calibrated: Industrial machinery calibration and certificate management system. Work in progress.

Lead Engineer | Revere Ltd | Aug 2024 – Present

Lead 2-4 engineers building multi-product SaaS portfolio. Own technical architecture, product roadmap input, and vendor relationships.

• Curate Platform: Digital memorial SaaS. Architected Go backend, PostgreSQL, Nuxt frontend on AWS. Shipped collaborative features and scaled infrastructure for production traffic.
• Curate Insitu: Physical kiosk with AI conversation. Designed hardware-software sync, integrated RAG system and live speech.
• Herald: IoT e-ink signage platform. Built distributed backend, real-time content delivery, telemetry pipeline for enterprise deployments.

Lead Engineer | Elmntri (Startup Studio) | Jun 2023 – Jul 2024

Shipped 3 early-stage products with 1-week sprints; MVPs delivered in 2-4 weeks for rapid market validation.

• Health Search Engine: Built keyword + semantic search architecture for specialized content platform.
• DNA Analysis Tool: Genomic data pipeline with HIPAA-compliant handling; generated personalized health reports.
• Health Tracker: Full-stack habit/supplement tracking app with analytics and data visualization.

Software Engineer | Frankish International | Sep 2020 – Aug 2022

• Built real-time multiplayer quiz platform: Node.js/Express backend, Socket.io for <100ms latency player sync, MongoDB with query optimization.

Background

Medical: M.B.B.S., University of Medicine 1, Yangon. Medical Officer experience in Taiwan and Myanmar (2015-2018). Domain expertise applied to health tech products.

Localization: Led QA teams (10+ people) at Tencent/Bilibili; 10M+ words translated. Best Translator Award, Tencent Next Idea (2018).

Education

• MBA — University of the People (2022-2025)
• M.B.B.S. — University of Medicine 1, Yangon (2007-2013)

Languages

English (native) · Mandarin Chinese (full professional) · Burmese (native)