AI Agent Architect · Full-stack Engineer · AI Builder. Auckland, New Zealand.
I architect AI agents, ship full-stack platforms end-to-end, and teach others to do the same. Building at the intersection of AI, cultural technology, and women's health.
Open to founding-team / staff-IC / AI architecture engagements. 
Featured in THISDAYLIVE · PulseMCP · FemTech Weekend · 小宇宙FM (Xiaoyuzhou).
What I work on full-time: a language that turns text into floor plans, and the AI design studio built on top of it. Everything else I build is further down.
Describe a floor plan in plain text — walls, rooms, doors, windows — and get a precise, dimensioned architectural drawing back. Change one number and exactly one thing moves. It also checks that a plan is actually livable, and powers ArchCanvas, an AI design agent.
An AI design agent for architects and self-builders: describe a building in plain words and it designs a dimensioned floor plan you can actually build from, plus a realistic rendering — then you refine it by talking, on an infinite zoomable canvas.
Systems I built for real clients and employers — a women's-health-tech community in China, an Auckland food festival, a Delaware startup, New Zealand's leading women-in-STEM charity, and a Canterbury infrastructure company — all still running today. I'm FemTech Weekend's CTO. Until September 2026 I was also She Sharp's Senior Full Stack Engineer & Website Team Lead and GAVIGO's Founding Principal Engineer.
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The bilingual website and sign-up system for FemTech Weekend — China's first women's-health-tech community — which carried Shanghai Summit 2026 and its 20 speakers, led by Ida Tin, who coined the term FemTech.
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The live site for Eatropolis, Auckland's official one-day culinary festival — 30+ award-winning chefs at Shed 10 on 10 Oct 2026. Commissioned work, reviewed by the council's development agency: WCAG 2.2 AA, a voice-enabled AI event guide, a 1,000-visitor load test, zero errors.
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Founding-engineer build for GAVIGO, a Delaware startup: scroll a phone feed and a game plays right in the scroll, with no app-store install. An AI orchestrator on Kubernetes keeps the next game on standby and activates it as you arrive; scroll back and the session is reattached.
↳ Sub-projects I built solo: GAVIGO Website ↗
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The digital and AI-native transformation of a volunteer-run New Zealand women-in-STEM charity: moved off rented software onto infrastructure it owns, with event setup, newsletters, posters, video and the mailing list rewritten as 11 agent skills a non-engineer can run.
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An offline-first React Native app for CORDE's field crews in rural Canterbury: capture text, photos and GPS with no signal, then sync when coverage returns. Built in a university placement team of three, where I wrote the largest share of the code and led the documentation.
Everything else I build and maintain beyond the featured work above — my own tools, games, and products, most of them open source, plus the smaller builds I've shipped for clients.
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echook | A notification system for AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex — that you install and set up just by talking to the AI in plain English. It plays sounds, reads the agent's reply aloud, warns you before you hit usage limits, and shows a live status bar. ↳ Works with  Claude Code ·  Cursor ·  OpenAI Codex |
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Google News MCP Server | Lets AI assistants like Claude search live Google News — sorted into topics, in 10 languages. One of the first tools built for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol: shipped 35 days after the standard launched, and it's now listed across 15+ MCP directories. |
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AI Programming Education Platform | A public website that teaches beginners to build software with AI — three years of cohorts kept side by side (five course versions, three running in 2026), plus an in-site AI tutor that answers from each class's own lessons and a Demo Day page for students' finished projects. ↳ Cohorts taught for     |
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a11y-loop | Makes AI coding agents write accessible UI by default, verifies it in a real browser, and lists what it could not check so a pass never overclaims WCAG 2.2 AA. Built for the accessible-UI challenge set at the Aotearoa AI Hackathon 2026 by the organisation now adopting it. ↳ Being adopted by  |
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Tam-AI-Ti | A te reo Māori AI coach for financial wellbeing, built on the Māori holistic-health model Te Whare Tapa Whā — encoded in the database, not added as decoration. A 19-person research cohort used it over four months: voice coaching plus 181 bilingual journal entries. ↳ For  Riria (Missy) Te Kanawa — Māori Executive Lead, Strategy & Governance at ASB Bank — a development commission. |
↑ Cards via my open-source github-readme-suno-cards — try it on your README.
1 Architect production AI agents. Multi-model orchestration, LangGraph + CopilotKit + MCP, bilingual cultural framing where domain concepts live in the schema, not in UI stickers.
2 Ship full-stack platforms end-to-end. Next.js + Supabase + Stripe + Drizzle SaaS that survives architectural pivots — multi-tenant isolation, RLS, a cross-cloud Kubernetes migration in a ~30-minute cutover.
3 Build multi-surface AI infrastructure and teach it. Single backend, multiple surfaces (React SPA + HTTP API + MCP + CLI) with feature parity. Teaching doctrine: natural language is the source code.
The software is half of it. I also make what an organisation shows the world: reports typeset in code, promo films, pitch decks, event slides and newsletters, plus the data work and findability underneath. Open any row to see the work.
Product films whose picture is a coded replica of the product's own interface, not a screen recording; an event promo; films for my own mark; and music videos for my own songs (made with Suno), their picture drawn frame by frame in code with no image or video generation model.
Typeset PDF reports Funder-grade reports typeset in code (Typst), where every figure traces to a named source.
She Sharp 2026 Half-Year Report · She Sharp
A 31-page funder report for a NZ women-in-STEM charity, typeset in Typst from the charity's own event register, member-platform database and booking exports — with a build gate that refuses to ship a figure not traced to a source.
Download the PDF (4 MB) ↓
Pitch decks Investor-facing HTML decks in a Swiss grid, built for a founder to present and send.
GAVIGO technical proof deck · GAVIGO Inc.
A 19-slide investor deck in a Swiss international-style grid, built as a single HTML file for the founder to present live and send behind a password.
Event slides Live, data-driven presentation decks that run a room for two days.
Aotearoa AI Hackathon Festival 2026 — event deck · She Sharp
The 91-slide deck that ran two days of She Sharp's hackathon at AUT City Campus (7–8 August 2026), rendered in the browser from the event's own data — timers, team slides and the winners reveal included.
Open it live →
Newsletters Email newsletters designed, written and sent from infrastructure the sender owns.
Chan's AI Weekly · chanmeng.org
A weekly five-minute AI briefing, written with Claude Code against a house style guide and sent through Resend from chanmeng.org — with the whole workflow published at chanmeng.org/newsletter/how-its-made.
Open it live →
The Monthly She# · She Sharp
She Sharp's monthly newsletter, moved off Mailchimp onto infrastructure the charity owns — a 1,549-person list cut over with 0 failures, 179 past issues recovered and served from the charity's own site.
Open it live →
Digital transformation Turning an organisation's scattered SaaS data into a structured, owned, auditable record.
She Sharp digital & AI transformation record · She Sharp
An evidence-backed record of a charity's move off rented software onto a system it owns — three platform migrations, a data-sovereignty programme and a governance audit — where every number is tagged measured, cited or derived.
SEO & GEO Making work findable by search engines and by the AI models people now ask instead.
Surfaced by Claude, confirmed by the founder · Engram
When Engram founder Luka Madzarac asked Claude Code to find an AI architect, it surfaced Chan Meng, and he confirmed it publicly on LinkedIn. The public footprint it read is built for exactly that reader — llms.txt, JSON-LD and an open-source record, all generated from one data source.
“It's true, Claude Code surfaced Chan as one of the strongest matches for what we're looking for.”
— Luka Madzarac, Founder, Engram · the post
↑ Flag map via my open-source github-visitor-counter — try it on your README.
- Founder & Sole Engineer at ArchCanvas · Apr 2026 -- Present
Founder and sole engineer of ArchCanvas, an AI architect that turns a plain-English brief into a dimensioned floor plan — and of ArchLang, the open-source floor-plan language I invented so every plan it draws can be compiled, checked and edited exactly. - Chief Technology Officer at FemTech Weekend · Mar 2025 -- Present
Sole engineer behind every digital surface of FemTech Weekend: two platform generations, plus the summit pages, application system and admin review tools that carried its four-day 2026 Shanghai Summit — built and run remotely from Auckland.
Previously: TechNest Community (AI instructor), Engram (AI Agent Architect, Anthropic Partner Network), Sanicle (CTO), FreePeriod (CTO), Forward With Her (mentor), ByteDance (Youth Training Camp), CORDE (Lincoln industry placement), Aotearoa Infinite Academy.
Field reports written while building the thing they describe — what the decision was, what broke, and what I'd do again. Everything below is self-hosted; nothing is behind a platform login.
| Sep 2026 | Suno Closed Its Public MP3. The Only Audio Left Won't Identify Itself. Follow-up to the trending-feed investigation, from daily automated captures running since 2026-04-12: a dated record of Suno's public API dropping the plain MP3 that always played and leaving only an unidentifiable `m4a-opus` address — what was measured on 24 August, what changed three weeks later, and where the trail stopped. |
| Jun 2026 | Claude Code Audio Hooks: System Architecture The architecture of claude-code-audio-hooks — an event-driven notification system designed to be operated by an AI agent rather than a human: no interactive prompts, NDJSON logs, single-shot config. |
| Jan 2026 | CopilotKit + LangGraph.js HITL Integration Guide A field report on wiring human-in-the-loop approval flows between CopilotKit and LangGraph.js, including the snake_case/camelCase tool-call-id mismatch that breaks them, the approaches that failed, and the working solution. |
| Jul 2026 | Stripe Payments + Cloudflare Workers Integration Running Stripe checkout, subscriptions, webhooks and the billing portal in a Next.js app deployed to Cloudflare Workers via OpenNext — including the server-side Stripe client changes Workers forces and the two-layer environment-variable setup. |
| Aug 2025 | The Future is Small: Why Small Language Models (SLMs) Are Powering the Next Wave of AI Agents The argument that small language models, not frontier LLMs, will power most agentic AI: why SLMs suit the narrow repetitive calls agents actually make, the shift already underway, and how existing agents could be converted. |
Credentials
- UN Women CSW 69 Speaker — Beyond Beijing 30 Conference, UN Headquarters NYC (Mar 14, 2025)
- Master of Applied Computing with Distinction — Lincoln University, New Zealand (Dean's List, top 5%)
- Outstanding Mentor Award, two years running — technical mentor at New Zealand's AI hackathon: Aotearoa AI Hackathon Festival 2026 (AUT City Campus, 7–8 Aug) and AI Hackathon Festival 2025 (AI Forum NZ × She Sharp × AUT)
❝ Chan has been one of the most important engineering contributors to GAVIGO during a demanding early stage. What stands out about Chan is not only her technical ability, but the way she turns ambiguous founder-level direction into working systems, measurable proof, and reliable product surfaces. ❞
— Saba Gecgil · Founder & CEO at GAVIGO Inc. (Activation & Execution Layer for Interactive Software); managed Chan directly during the GAVIGO engagement · read full recommendation →
Design tokens & voice principles → brand system.
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