HELLO, I’M VALENTIN.

EST. NOW / ALWAYS EVOLVING

PRODUCT SENSE.
ENGINEERING DEPTH.

I’m a technical lead and full-stack product engineer in Hong Kong. For eight years I’ve built products, and the small teams that ship them, across e-commerce, fintech, crypto, banking, marketing engineering and, where it all began, VR/AR.

EXPLORE THE WORK A LITTLE ABOUT ME

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CURRENT TRANSMISSION

Based in Hong Kong.
Ready for the next build.

01 / SELECTED TRANSMISSIONS

Work, in focus.

A At work

FIG. 01LIVE SITE

Wristcheck homepage with a showroom hero and shop-by-category tiles

WRISTCHECK / LUXURY E-COMMERCE

A marketplace for one-of-a-kind watches.

Joined as the first engineer and built the foundation of Wristcheck’s first e-commerce channel, which grew to 20% of total GMV.

Next.jsMedusaNestJSStrapiAlgoliaAWS

FIG. 02ARCHIVED

BITMEX / ENGINEERING MANAGER

Engineering the digital front door of BitMEX.

Managed a four-engineer marketing team, upgraded the blog, campaign landing pages and notifications, and drove Claude-assisted delivery.

Team leadershipNext.jsContentful CMSTechnical SEOAI workflows

FIG. 03ARCHIVED

TECHIP / FLURRY FINANCE

Yield farming, from concept to launch.

I designed Flurry’s UI/UX and worked across its DeFi dApp, landing page, CMS and deployment as a full-stack developer.

ReactNext.jsWeb 3UI/UX DesignThe GraphStrapi

FIG. 04ARCHIVED

C-Trade trading terminal with chart, order book, recent trades and order form

TECHIP / C-TRADE

A derivatives exchange. Web platform and native app.

Owned the frontend of a crypto derivatives exchange, then led the design, development and release of its Flutter mobile app. Also built its marketing landing pages and competition pages.

ReactFlutterNext.jsTrading UIApp releases

B More project work

FIG. 06PREVIEW

ProjectBRX night scene: a red phone booth under street lights in the fog

CLIENT WORK / PROJECTBRX

An incoming call in the fog.

Frontend development for ProjectBRX, an atmospheric web3 site where a ringing phone booth leads to the story, a wallet check and the sale of the DEX NFT.

ReactTypeScriptweb3-reactstyled-components

FIG. 072022

Vending Co. site styled as a pixel vending machine asking the visitor to connect a wallet

CLIENT WORK / VENDING CO.

A vending machine for NFTs.

Frontend development for Vending Co., a pixel-art vending machine where visitors connect a wallet and receive a can.

ReactTypeScriptweb3-reactPixel art UI

FIG. 082023

DEX Hub showing three DEX with their Hertz points, time held and the weekly Hertz rate

CLIENT WORK / PROJECTBRX

A hub for DEX holders.

Frontend development for the ProjectBRX DEX Hub, where holders sign in with their wallet, see their DEX and Hertz, and build a profile picture.

ReactTypeScriptRedux ToolkitCanvasSIWE

FIG. 09EVENT APP

WRISTCHECK / TOKEN2049 STAGE APP

The countdown on the big screen.

A full-screen stage app built at Wristcheck, the official timekeeper of TOKEN2049, to run the hackathon timers and animated sequences.

ReactViteGSAPLottieZustand

FIG. 052022

Volmart landing page: The First Marketplace for Decentralized Crypto Structured Products

VOLMART / UI/UX & FRONTEND

Structured products, designed for DeFi.

Designed the UI/UX and built the frontend for Volmart, a marketplace for decentralised crypto structured products.

FigmaUI/UXReactNext.js

C On the side

FIG. 10LIVE DEMO

Three GTO Hunter phone screens: the hub, a guided example hand and the card shop

SIDE PROJECT / PROTOTYPE

Poker strategy, learned like a language.

A prototype “Duolingo for poker”: a gamified, mobile-first learning path for game-theory-optimal play.

React 19ViteTailwind CSSExpressSQLite

FIG. 11OPEN BLUEPRINT

SIDE PROJECT / AI INFRASTRUCTURE

A team of AI specialists on a home server.

A self-hosted Discord workspace where each channel is a specialist AI agent with its own memory, tools and permissions.

Pi agentsDiscordMCPLinux

02 / BEHIND THE SCREEN

From idea
to production.

Hey, I’m Valentin Van.

I’m a French engineer based in Hong Kong. I started in VR/AR after studying computer science and 3D engineering in Paris, then moved through banking, crypto and DeFi, luxury e-commerce and marketing engineering.

My work connects product thinking, full-stack engineering and team leadership—from shaping the user experience to building backend services and delivering reliable systems, always with AI in the loop.

BITMEX · 03/2026 – 09/2026Engineering Manager, Marketing
Managed four engineers, brought structure and sprint priorities, upgraded the marketing infrastructure and drove Claude-assisted delivery.
WRISTCHECK · 09/2022 – 02/2026Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead
First engineer on the in-house platform. Built the foundation of the first e-commerce channel, which grew to 20% of total GMV.
TECHIP TECHNOLOGIES · 02/2020 – 09/2022Senior Software Engineer & UI/UX Designer
Owned the C-Trade exchange frontend, shipped its Flutter app, and took the Flurry DeFi dApp from concept to launch.
SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, HONG KONG · 01/2019 – 12/2019Full Stack Engineer
Developed financial web components across React and .NET Core.
NEXTER TRAINING (NOW KNDS FRANCE) · 09/2015 – 01/2018Software Engineer (VR/AR)
Started my career building virtual and augmented reality software in France.

Master’s in Computer Science & 3D Engineering — ESIEE Paris, 2015–2018
Associate degree in Computer Science — IUT Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 2013–2015

TOOLS I REACH FOR

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsMedusaStrapiFlutterAWSDockerAI tooling

03 / OPEN A CHANNEL

BASED IN HONG KONG

LET’S
CONNECT

Every good conversation starts with a signal.

CONTACT DETAILSvalentin.van32@gmail.com

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