Daniel Crane
Head Of Operations
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaniel Crane is a results-driven Head of Operations with 12 years’ experience architecting and running global connectivity and trading infrastructure for financial services firms. A Durham Computer Science graduate, he has led operations and integration teams at Tickstarter, IS Prime and Reactive Markets, specialising in FIX/REST connectivity, MT4/MT5 ecosystems, low-latency market data and multi-datacentre deployments (NY4/LD4/TY3/SG1). Known for precise vendor and client management, Daniel combines hands-on technical troubleshooting with strategic design of proprietary bridging and matching-engine solutions that support 120+ global clients. He also contributes to open-source tooling, improving CSS parsing and UI handling in projects like hyphanet/fred, showing attention to front-end details alongside back-end systems. Comfortable operating across time zones and language boundaries, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex trading technology and operations.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
A Levels ICT Business and Religious Studies, A Levels ICT Business and Religious Studies at St Dominic's Sixth Form CollegeBSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at Durham University
English, German
Github Skills (6)
css10
javas10
parser10
java10
flexbox9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hyphanet/fred
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Freenet REference Daemon
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the CSS parser and filter functionality. They added support for CSS3 length units, CSS3 flexbox properties, box-sizing, and other UI-related properties. These changes included modifying the CSSTokenizerFilter and related test files, demonstrating a focus on improving the project's CSS parsing capabilities.
distributeddaemonp2pfreenet
drcrane/bslscripter-vs2017
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
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