Summary
Nelson Cheung is a seasoned technology lead with 11+ years building and operating mission-critical Market Risk systems at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, combining deep hands-on expertise in .NET, C#, Python and Sybase SQL with proven delivery leadership. He drives end-to-end feature execution for enterprise time-series pipelines, improving large-scale weekly processing performance and reliability by 35% while coordinating cross-functional teams and enforcing engineering best practices. Nelson has a strong production-support pedigree—running global incident and problem management, DR planning, and automation efforts that reduced manual work and stabilized SLAs. Equally comfortable as a Feature Lead, Scrum Master, and mentor, he translates complex business objectives into pragmatic technical plans and coaches developers to raise code and delivery standards. Based in Markham, Ontario with a statistics background from Simon Fraser University, he blends quantitative thinking with practical systems engineering to keep critical risk infrastructure predictable and resilient.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at Simon Fraser University