Chris L
Staff Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolChris L is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building commercial software, currently shaping platform engineering at The Trade Desk from Hong Kong. He combines hands-on systems programming—working on IoT drivers, Modbus hardware communication, ASP.NET WebAPI and big data ingestion—with architecture and team leadership skills honed as founder/CTO and as a team lead at Cainiao. His background spans startups to enterprise: founding and growing a surveillance-software company, leading core API gateway and intelligent video platforms at Cainiao, and contributing to Lenovo’s XClarity products for virtualized data centers. Comfortable making decisions under uncertainty, he breaks down complex projects and mentors peers to deliver production-grade systems. He’s an active maintainer on open-source Modbus tooling, reflecting a pragmatic focus on interoperability for hardware and cloud systems. Chris’s mix of product-minded engineering and operational experience gives him a knack for turning device-level integrations into scalable, commercial platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, double major in Information System and Finance, Bachelor's degree, double major in Information System and Finance at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
csharp10
modbus10
dotnet-core10
netframework9
protocols8
communication-protocol8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
parallelbgls/Modbus.Net
Jul 2014 - Apr 2021
A high extensible hardware communication platform using C#
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:387 commits, 6 PRs, 558 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris updated existing code and made changes to various project files including project definition files and source code in the context of a Modbus hardware communication platform built with C#. The changes, though not fully detailed, suggest a focus on code maintenance and potentially extending the capabilities of the platform. These updates are likely related to ensuring the project's stability and forward compatibility.
siemensscadacommunicationc-sharpcsharp
parallelbgls/TransServer.Net
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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