Lester Chan is a Singapore-based Senior Software Engineer with a wealth of experience in both the technology industry and education. He earned a degree in Computing (Information Systems) from the National University of Singapore and a diploma in Multimedia Technology from Singapore Polytechnic. Chan began his career in web development and has held several positions throughout the years, including Chief Technology Officer at First Food Industries Pte Ltd, Web Evangelist at FRRO LLP, and Senior Web Engineer at migme.

More recently, Chan was the Head of Engineering at Tech in Asia, where he managed the engineering team and handled all WordPress-related projects to scale the platform. After leaving Tech in Asia, he moved on to work at Grab as an Integration Manager and later a full-stack Software Engineer. Chan is also known for his contributions to the open-source community and is a WordPress plugin developer with 21 plugins in the WordPress Plugin Repository and can be found on GitHub.

Outside of his professional life, Chan is passionate about technology and gadgets, and he blogs about those topics on his website, lesterchan.net. As a result, he has become one of Singapore's top ten influential tech bloggers.