Calvin Chan is a creative product technologist focused on technology applications in retail, fashion, and luxury. Chan is the Founder and CEO of Legitimate, a platform that transcends physical boundaries with digital experiences. Under his leadership, Legitimate brings NFTs to the physical world, building the decentralized protocol that powers connected products. Prior to Legitimate, he was a technical and product consultant for various early stage startups on product and technology decisions. He has also helped founders develop and integrate a streamlined product development workflow. He was also involved in product development at AirSwap, which was acquired by ConsenSys, where he built and maintained several high traffic frontend applications interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
EARLY CAREER
Chan was a Senior Software Engineer for Skillshare, and a Software Engineer for Avenir Interactive.
Some of his notable and recent clients include Benefit Kitchen, Otis, and Badaboom.
MEDIA
Chan has been featured at CoinDesk and Yahoo! Finance, among others.
He has also appeared as a guest on Real Vision.