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Edward Chan

Wildcard · DISC type cis
Forward Deployed Engineer at Lyra
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Edward is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Lyra, specializing in talent engineering and shipping products for high-growth startups. A graduate of Monash University and a Lyra Certified Full-Stack Engineer, he has previous experience as an intern at Atlassian and Culture Amp, where he focused on observability metrics.

Outside of his engineering role, Edward is a proven community builder. As President of the Monash Association of Coding (MAC), he led the organization to win multiple awards and dramatically increased its membership and online presence through strategic content creation.

He grew the Monash Association of Codings online following from 1, 000 to over 62, 000 in a single year.

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Experience
2 Years
Current Role
Forward Deployed Engineer
Job Level
Junior
Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Personality Overview

How Edward shows up

Friendly But Slow
Requires Proof
ROI Driven

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Priorities

Topics Edward cares about

Community Building
As President of the Monash Association of Coding, he grew the club to over 1700 members and achieved a combined following of over 125, 000.
Viral Content Creation
Has experience producing high-conversion, viral videos, accumulating over 6 million views and growing a user-generated content page from zero to 10, 000 followers.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Forward Deployed Engineer
Lyra
11-2025
Software Engineer Intern
Culture Amp
11-2025
Co-Founder & CMO
Twine
7-2025
Growth - UGC (+10k)
Cluely
3-2025 - 8-2025
Fastrack Founder
Entrepreneurship Portfolio @ Monash University
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2-2022 - 11-2025
Bachelor's degree
Monash University
11-2023 - 1-2024
Chinese Intensive Language Program
Shanghai International Studies University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

c

Calculativeness (C)

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