Summary
Jian Kang is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading engineering teams for large financial and search-platform products across Beijing and global firms. He has progressed from hands-on roles in web data mining and Hadoop at Baidu to managing real-time financial systems and data platforms at Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv, and Microsoft, now continuing at LSEG. Jian blends deep backend expertise—ETL, data warehousing, T-SQL performance tuning, and distributed processing—with proven people leadership in delivery and platform modernization. Comfortable in both code and strategy, he has a track record of improving data accuracy and system performance in high-stakes financial environments. Trained in embedded systems from Peking University, he brings an engineer’s attention to efficiency and a penchant for solving complex data integration challenges that aren’t obvious from titles alone.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Software Engineering, Embedded System, Master of Software Engineering, Embedded System at Peking University
Chinese, English