Chun Chan
Engineering Manager at Hong Kong Observatory
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChun Chan is an engineering manager and former senior account manager with a Master’s in Physics and eight years' experience bridging quantitative analysis, client-facing finance, and technical operations. He built deep expertise in derivatives and client relationship management at BOCOM while mentoring junior staff and teaching public courses on options, and has supported HR analytics at HSBC and research-driven roles earlier in his career. Equally comfortable with numbers and code, he actively develops skills in Excel VBA and Python and manages the SWIRLS nowcasting system on GitHub, reflecting a blend of scientific rigor and product-minded engineering. A polyglot in both human and programming languages—he holds JLPT N1—Chun brings meticulous attention to detail from book-editing and data research to multi-lingual, cross-cultural collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Japanese, Shanghainese
Github Skills (21)
optical-flow10
weather9
stochastic-processes8
hydrology8
deep-learning7
python6
rainbow6
meteorology6
visualize4
decode4
matplotlib3
hdfs3
grib3
visualization2
apidoc2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sxjscience/HKO-7
Apr 2018 - Oct 2019
Source code of paper "[NIPS2017] Deep Learning for Precipitation Nowcasting: A Benchmark and A New Model"
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
deep-learning
pySTEPS/pysteps
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Python framework for short-term ensemble prediction systems.
Contributions:17 comments, 4 issues in 11 months
pythonnowcastingoptical-flowadvectionforecast-verification
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