Nelson Gan
Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer who gets genuinely excited about building things that matter. By day, I'm helping make crypto data more accessible at CoinGecko. By night (and weekends), I'm building tools to help Malaysians make better financial decisions and navigate their careers.
I love working across the full stack, whether it's wrangling Rails backends, crafting smooth Next.js experiences, or teaching AI to understand what people actually mean when they search for jobs. When I'm not coding, you'll find me tinkering with LLMs, optimizing databases for fun, or experimenting with agentic workflows that actually solve real problems.
Currently excited about: building financial tools that don't suck, making salary data more transparent, and finding creative ways to use AI that actually help people (not just add fancy autocomplete to everything).
Work Experiences
Software Engineer (L2)
CoinGecko
🇲🇾 Remote, Kuala Lumpur
Ski Rental Associate
Ober Mountain
🇺🇸 Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
Software Engineer
CoinGecko
🇲🇾 Remote, Kuala Lumpur
Software Engineer
Studio20
🇲🇾 Remote, Kuala Lumpur
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
Frameworks
Technologies
Featured Projects
paygap.asia
An app initiative by MalaysiaPayGap (200k followers) that promotes salary transparency and allows users to submit their career stories and salaries. Actively working with the team to push out various backend features such as semantic search, company logo fetch, and description generation with LLM. All features are hosted on Supabase and achieved with queues and cron jobs for asynchronous workflow.
duitplanner.my
A suite of financial planning tools designed specifically for Malaysians to calculate car loans, mortgages, retirement savings, and investment returns. Built to empower better financial decisions through accurate calculations and planning. The platform serves 1000+ monthly active users and I decided to make it completely ad-free as a way of giving back to the community.