Crane Chen
Senior Software Engineer at LGIM America
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCrane Chen is a Senior Software Engineer in the Greater Chicago Area with nearly two decades of experience designing and implementing trading systems, financial data platforms, and large-scale data processing solutions. He has deep expertise in C#, C++, ASP.NET, MSSQL and modern distributed architectures, having built core trading infrastructure (OMS/EMS), FIX-based messaging, and quantitative analysis tools used in production. At RiverNorth and Morningstar he led end-to-end systems work—spanning GRPC/Protobuf, Kafka/Redis, and integrations with Bloomberg—while collaborating closely with traders and back-office teams. His research interests in algorithms, data structures, and surface reconstruction inform a unique blend of practical engineering and computer-graphics curiosity (noted in his GitHub bio). Currently focused on microservices at LGIM America, he brings both legacy Windows/COM experience and modern cloud-native practices to complex financial engineering problems.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, General at Huaqiao UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Loyola University of Chicago
Github Skills (44)
pytorch10
visualization10
open3d10
viewer10
python10
rendering10
volume-rendering10
cluster-computing10
odometry10
computer-graphics10
cuda10
arm10
cpp10
point-cloud10
opengl10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HeCraneChen/Curvature-A-signature-for-Action-Recognition-in-Video-Sequences
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
HeCraneChen/HeCraneChen.github.io
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:177 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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