Kevin Crane
Staff Software Engineer at Square
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKevin Crane is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput distributed systems, with deep expertise in payments and platform engineering. He has driven reliability and performance at scale across roles at Square and Twitter, including integrating storage engines, cross-datacenter replication, and payment platform improvements. Kevin’s background spans infrastructure, feature-flagging, and report-generation systems from his time at PlanGrid to platform-level work on Manhattan at Twitter, reflecting a bias for pragmatic, measurable improvements. He pairs strong systems programming (Java, C++, Python) with cloud and data experience, having built ETL and logging pipelines on AWS and Hadoop earlier in his career. Based in Oakland, he leverages a Carnegie Mellon master’s in software engineering and a habit of prototyping practical tooling—like caching libraries and compaction features—to shave costs and operational burden.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster’s Degree, Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityStudy Abroad, Study Abroad at Queen Mary, U. of London
Github Skills (7)
calibre10
epub10
twitter10
mobi10
database-access9
database8
mysql7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kevincrane/kevcrablog
Apr 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes in 9 years 11 months
kevincrane/distsys-f13
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:86 commits in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.