I architect AI agents, ship full-stack platforms end-to-end, and teach others to do the same.
Open to founding-team / staff-IC / AI architecture engagements starting Q3 2026. Book a call →
What I do
Build AI agents that don't fall over.
Software that decides and acts on its own — with safety rules enforced in code, not just hopeful prompts — so it's safe for money, health data, and compliance steps.
Ship whole products end-to-end.
From database to interface to billing, often solo or as the first engineer — platforms with paying customers and real clients that survive big rewrites.
Keep AI fast and affordable.
Predictable speed and cost through caching, model routing, and tested failure modes — in production, apps that open in under a millisecond.
Teach it.
I design and solo-teach a 12-week AI course at TechNest; students ship a real AI app by week 8. My rule of thumb: natural language is the source code.
Selected work
AI Agent Architect
May 2026 — PresentEngram
Recruited onto Anthropic's partner-architect track — an AI surfaced my open-source work as the recommendation when Engram's founder went looking for an AI architect, and he confirmed it publicly.
AI Instructor & Mentor
Apr 2026 — PresentTechNest Community
Sole instructor of TechNest's first AI-specialised track — a 12-week, prompt-first course with live classes and an in-course AI assistant. Students ship a real, working AI app by week 8.
Founding Principal Engineer, Activation, Execution & AI Systems
Oct 2025 — PresentGAVIGO
Promoted from Core Engineer to Founding Principal Engineer at a Delaware startup; I own the intelligence layer end-to-end. Tapped games and videos open in under a millisecond, already warm most of the time.
Senior Full Stack Engineer & Website Team Lead
Jul 2025 — PresentShe Sharp
Recruited by founder Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh to build the AI and full-stack capability She Sharp lacked in-house — one platform for 2,200+ members, migrated off Webflow with 10+ years of content preserved, plus AI mentor-matching kept under human review.
Chief Technology Officer
Mar 2025 — PresentFemTech Weekend
Sole engineer and co-architect across two platform generations for China's first women's-health-tech community — the current platform carried the 2026 Shanghai Summit and its 20 confirmed speakers, led by Ida Tin, who coined the term FemTech.
Earlier — CTO at women's-health startup Sanicle (took its AI platform to an IBM Silver Partnership) and at period-equity startup FreePeriod, mentor with Forward With Her, backend engineer on ByteDance's 青训营 training camp, and a Lincoln University industry placement building a field-operations app for NZ civil-construction firm CORDE.
Things I've built
Recognition
UN CSW 69 Speaker
United Nations HQ, New York — presented Sanicle AI at the Beyond Beijing 30 conference; drew IBM pilot interest
Outstanding Mentor Award
AI Hackathon Festival 2025 (AI Forum NZ × She Sharp × AUT) — 1 of 14 expert mentors, guided 11 teams (80+ people)
UN Women FemTech Hackathon — Outstanding Performer
2025 UN Women FemTech Hackathon, Beijing — recognised as an independent developer
FemTech China Excellence Award
FemTech China Women's Health Technology Challenge — core team member
Master's with Distinction
Master of Applied Computing, Lincoln University NZ — Dean's List, top 5%
What others say
Frequently asked
Who is Chan Meng?
Chan Meng is an AI Agent Architect & Full-stack Engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. She architects production AI agents, ships full-stack platforms end-to-end — for paying customers, sensitive health data, and regulated work, not demos — and teaches others to do the same. She holds a Master of Applied Computing with Distinction from Lincoln University.
What does Chan Meng build?
She builds AI agents that act safely on their own, with guardrails enforced in code rather than hopeful prompts, and ships whole products from database to interface to billing — often solo or as the first engineer. Recent work includes a Māori-culture AI wellbeing coach, ArchCanvas (an AI design agent for architects, powered by her own ArchLang floor-plan language), and an AI career agent.
What is Chan Meng's tech stack?
Her core stack is AI agents — Claude Code, Model Context Protocol (MCP), LangGraph, CopilotKit, and RAG — with TypeScript, Python, and Go. On the full-stack side she uses React, Next.js, and React Native on the front end, and Node.js, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Redis, Cloudflare, Docker, and Stripe on the back end.
What are Chan Meng's most notable projects?
Her flagship builds include GAVIGO IRE, a Delaware startup's app-launch platform where tapped games and videos open in under a millisecond; ArchCanvas, an AI design agent that turns a plain-language brief into a buildable floor plan, powered by her own ArchLang language; Tam-AI-Ti, a te reo Māori AI wellbeing coach; and She Sharp, the member platform for New Zealand's leading women-in-STEM charity (2,200+ members). She also shipped one of the first Google News MCP servers, 35 days after the standard launched.
Is Chan Meng available for work or collaboration?
Yes — she's open to founding-team, staff-IC, and AI architecture engagements starting Q3 2026, alongside technical consulting, speaking, and mentorship, with a focus on AI agents, cultural technology, and women's health. Reach her at chanmeng.dev@gmail.com or book a 30-minute call at cal.com/chan-meng/30min; she typically responds within 24–48 hours.
Where is Chan Meng based?
Chan Meng is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and works with teams across New Zealand, China, and the remote US. She is bilingual in English and Chinese, and spoke at UN CSW 69 at the United Nations headquarters in New York in March 2025.
One Argument a Week About Where AI Is Actually Heading
Written by an autonomous editor I built. The week's events are the evidence — every link goes to the original story. Monday mornings, five minutes, no hype.
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