Nam
About
Hi — I’m Nam Chan. Depending on where we met, you might also know me as Alfred Nam. I live between Hong Kong and London.
What I do
I’m the CTO of Wistkey, where we help businesses actually put AI to work:
- Private, on-premises AI — deploying LLMs on a company’s own servers, so sensitive data never leaves the building
- Agentic workflow automation — AI agents that take repetitive operations off people’s plates, end to end
- Engineering delivery — on-demand software engineers and dedicated teams that ship real products, across the UK and Hong Kong
More and more of my time goes into helping companies adopt AI across the whole organisation — not just the tech department. Finance, HR, admin, accounting, operations: every one of these teams has repetitive, rules-based work that AI can take on, and that’s often where the fastest wins are. I’m currently deep in AI applications and agentic workflows, and when people ask, I teach on AI topics too — I genuinely enjoy it.
Back to code
After some years away from hands-on programming, I’m hooked on it again. AI has re-empowered the skills I built long ago and, honestly, made coding physically more affordable — the long, unbroken hours that get harder to sustain past thirty are no longer the price of shipping something good. That’s changed everything about how much I can build.
You’ll find what I’m building on the projects page — from VitaBaby to little tools like NamLoop.
Yoga
I practise Ashtanga yoga, five to six mornings a week, at 4am London time in Euston. It’s the discipline that keeps everything else sustainable — body and mind both. Huge thanks to my teachers Hamish and Clayton for their guidance; the practice I have today is thanks to them. 🙏
What I write about
This blog is where I think out loud about tech, IT, AI, business, finance and yoga — practical AI adoption and on-prem LLMs, the craft of shipping software, building companies and making sense of money, and the practice that keeps me grounded.
I write in English and Traditional Chinese — most posts in one language, some in both. The 中 / EN toggle in the header switches between them.
Say hi
The fastest way to reach me is email: nam@wistkey.com. Everywhere else I exist on the internet is on the links page.