Nicholas Chan
Summer Intern at AIA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Chan is a Boston-based BSBA finance student at Boston University who blends financial compliance experience with hands-on technical contributions in open-source and operating-system tooling. He has interned at Mizuho and KPMG working on financial operations and tax compliance, and has supported real estate and startup investment teams, demonstrating strong analytical rigor and process orientation. Outside finance, Nicholas contributes to low-level Linux and iOS projects—helping integrate checkra1n into the palera1n jailbreak and improving build automation for the Procursus bootstrap—showing uncommon cross-domain fluency. He is multilingual and thrives in fast-paced, multicultural teams, often bridging technical and regulatory perspectives to streamline workflows. Nicholas’s profile reflects seven years of varied experience and a penchant for system-level engineering projects that complement his finance training. Motivated to apply precision, automation skills, and a security-minded technical background to roles at the intersection of finance, compliance, and infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Hong Kong International SchoolBachelor of Science in Business Administration - BSBA, Finance, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - BSBA, Finance at Boston University
Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (26)
crossbuild10
packaging10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
makefile10
c1710
device-tree10
device-driver10
driver10
sys10
build-automation10
embedded10
cross-compiling10
architecture9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
palera1n/palera1n
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Jailbreak for A8 through A11, T2 devices, on iOS/iPadOS/tvOS 15.0, bridgeOS 5.0 and higher.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 15 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas's commits primarily involve implementing and integrating checkra1n, a jailbreak tool for iOS devices, within the palera1n project. They are responsible for integrating the checkra1n binaries and executing them within the project's structure. They modified the code related to entering DFU mode, device information, and incorporating the checkra1n functionalities. They have also improved the display of the output.
iosipadosjailbreaktvoscheckm8
ProcursusTeam/Procursus
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Modern *OS Bootstrap
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:126 reviews, 64 commits, 217 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the build process and packaging of software within the Procursus project. Their commits involved adding, updating, and modifying Makefiles for various packages, including adding dependencies, configuring build settings, and fixing build issues. The user's work focused on integrating new packages, improving existing build processes, and ensuring that dependencies were correctly handled within the larger build system.
bootstrapjailbreakprocursuscross-compilationios
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