In 2003, Mr. Chan graduated with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and a minor in economics from Stanford University. He also received the Frederick E. Terman Award, given to the top 5% of graduating seniors in the School of Engineering at Stanford. During his university years, he interned at international technology companies including Oracle, IBM, and VMware (later acquired by EMC). After graduation, he joined a network storage start-up company called Neopath Networks, and then started his current career at Google as an engineer in 2004.