Principal technologist · Multi-cloud · Data platforms · Applied AI

Hubert Chan

Principal Data & AI Architect

I connect enterprise intent to production systems. Cloud platforms, data modernization, applied AI, and the architecture that lets teams ship at scale.

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Portrait of Hubert Chan

The pressure gauges

A career measured in scale.

Selected readings from the workshop instruments.

Brass gauge A steampunk pressure gauge with a needle indicating a high value.
20+Years
Brass gauge A steampunk pressure gauge with a needle indicating a high value.
260 TBRetail migration
Brass gauge A steampunk pressure gauge with a needle indicating a high value.
300Systems to SAP
Brass gauge A steampunk pressure gauge with a needle indicating a high value.
100+Consultants trained

Expeditions & Inventions

Selected systems, drawn from the work.

Each entry is a real engagement, rendered as a mechanical blueprint. No template filler.

No. 01 Invention
GenAI expedition blueprint Steampunk blueprint of the real-estate GenAI product path from customer journey to RAG core and GTM. JOURNEYPERSONA MVPFEATURES RAG COREBedrockLangChain GTMTEST REAL-ESTATE AI EXPEDITION · CTO/SVP DAILY ALIGNMENT

Real estate AI assistant

From proposal to MVP to multi-phase testing and GTM, with daily CTO/SVP collaboration and RAG orchestration through AWS Bedrock, LangChain, LangGraph and OpenAI.

  • Full product lifecycle ownership
  • CTO/SVP stakeholder alignment
  • API Gateway + Lambda serverless APIs
No. 02 Expedition
Retail migration expedition blueprint Steampunk blueprint showing three data centres and their estate converging to AWS and Snowflake over eight months. DC 1-3260 TB30+ DBs PIPELINES~3,000~4K reports AWSSNOWFLAKE 8 MONTHS · 3 BANNERS · 50+ CONTRIBUTORS

260 TB, 8 months, 3 banners

Data-conversion technical program lead for a North American retailer moving three data centres to AWS and Snowflake.

  • 30+ databases · ~3,000 pipelines · ~4,000 reports · 20+ apps
  • 50+ contributors · 4 vendors · $9B environment
  • Architecture review, cost optimization, testing oversight
No. 03 Invention
HealthTech multi-tenant SaaS blueprint Steampunk hub-and-spoke blueprint for a HIPAA-aware multi-tenant SaaS product. MULTI-TENANTPRODUCT LambdaStepFns SnowflakeAnalytics S3+GlueEvents Azure SQL+ Blob 2+ YEARS · MULTIPLE RELEASES · HIPAA-AWARE

Multi-tenant SaaS data product

HIPAA-aware multi-tenant SaaS applications across AWS serverless, Snowflake and Azure SQL/Blob over more than two years and multiple releases.

  • Multi-tenant isolation on Lambda, Step Functions, Glue, S3, CloudWatch
  • Snowflake data platform and analytics
  • Azure DevOps cross-cloud integration
No. 04 Expedition
SAP convergence expedition blueprint Steampunk blueprint showing 300 systems and 30+ plants converging into one SAP instance. 30+ PLANTS · 300 SYSTEMS ONE SAPINSTANCE ~2 PB · 5 YEARS · US · CANADA · INDIA

300 systems → one SAP instance

Five-year program converting data from 30+ manufacturing plants in the US, Canada and India into a single SAP instance.

  • Approximately 2 petabytes of data
  • 700+ sources per plant represented in portfolio
  • DataStage, QualityStage, DB2, Oracle

Chronology

From the lab to the workshop.

IBM R&D, global consulting, practice leadership, enterprise architecture, and in-house platform ownership — still a passionate, hands-on engineer.

Patents & Guild Certifications

A working stack, continuously validated.

Selected professional credentials across the platforms in the work.

Queen’s University

B.Sc. Honours Computing & Info Science; B.Sc. Life Sciences. Both in four years.

Clearance

Canadian Secret (Level II), transferable subject to sponsorship.

Community

AWS re:Invent PeerTalk Expert, AWS Community Builder, Snowflake Squad.

Workshop output

Technical leverage beyond one delivery.

Principal impact includes enabling other architects and engineers to make better decisions.

100+consultants trained
30+AWS certs enabled
60%lower attrition
re:InventPeerTalk Expert

Bring the hard architecture problem.

Open to principal-level Data & AI architecture opportunities across the US, Canada and remote teams.

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