Portrait of Kelly Chan

Resume / 2026

Kelly Chan

Serial founder building AI-native organizations and enterprise software

Hong Kong · San Francisco

Serial founder, product builder and technology leader with a finance background and 14+ years of hands-on software experience. I build products where AI, enterprise digital transformation and organizational design meet, from architecture and product strategy to fundraising and multidisciplinary team leadership.

1M+Vika users
15K+organizations across 28+ countries
20M+HEYTEA GO online members
120+people across three teams built from zero

Experience

  1. May 2026 - PresentHong Kong · San Francisco

    Founder

    Buda

    Building “Agents as a Company”: coordinated AI employees that execute real work while people retain direction, taste and critical judgment.

    • Applying multi-agent operations to media, e-commerce, consulting and manufacturing workflows.
    • Developing an AI-native workspace where agents share context, tools and persistent business processes.
  2. Aug 2019 - PresentChina · International

    Founder & CEO

    Vika · AITable

    Founded Vika, an API-first enterprise data productivity platform, and launched AITable as its international AI product.

    • Reached 1M+ users and served 15,000+ organizations across 28+ countries, including teams at Tencent, Baidu and China Southern Power Grid.
    • Built a visual database and no-code platform for project operations, CRM, AI applications and 1,000+ business scenarios.
    • Backed by IDG Capital, Tiantu Capital, 5Y Capital (formerly Morningside), Eminence Ventures (Jingya Capital) and Hillhouse Capital.
  3. Jun 2017 - Jul 20192 years 2 months

    Founding CTO · Digital Marketing Lead · Board Member

    HEYTEA 喜茶

    • Built Digital Marketing, Software R&D and ITSM teams from zero to more than 120 people.
    • Designed HEYTEA GO and its membership system from zero to 20M+ online members, establishing a widely cited retail digitalization benchmark.
    • Owned software delivery and digital growth during a period of rapid national expansion.
  4. Jan 2012 - Jun 20175 years 6 months

    Senior Software Engineer / Game Architect

    Kingsoft Software

    • Worked across game engines, web and native apps, distributed servers, architecture and DevOps.
    • Designed and operated mobile/MMORPG game systems; developed deep expertise in Unity3D.
    • Created the open-source KSFramework project and contributed to Slua.

Selected Work

Buda AI

AI-native organization

A unified workspace for recruiting and operating coordinated AI agents across persistent business workflows.

Vika / AITable

Enterprise digitalization · Global AI product

Vika serves the China market; AITable brings the platform and its AI capabilities to international users.

APITable

Open source · 15K+ stars

The open-source, API-oriented visual database foundation for collaborative applications and AI workflows.

App-in-Skill

Human-in-the-loop agents

A practical pattern where agent skills ship with local review interfaces for editing, inspection and safe approval.

KSFramework

Game engineering · 1K+ stars

A Unity3D framework with hot-reload support, created during years of hands-on game and engine development.