Richard Crane
Lead Agentic Developer at MILL5
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRichard Crane is a seasoned technology founder and lead agentic developer with over a decade of experience designing compute-intensive, AI-native systems that span IoT, cloud-native platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), and high-performance distributed architectures. As Founder and current Chief AI Officer of MILL5, he specializes in building agentic orchestration, RAG pipelines, and A2A communication using cutting-edge models and protocols like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and MCP. His background as a Microsoft MVP and longtime architect—ranging from early roles at Microsoft to startups and enterprise financial systems—gives him rare depth across systems, cloud, and product strategy. Richard blends hands-on engineering with product leadership, often prototyping creative, art-infused experiments in his spare time that explore emergent behavior at scale. Based in Boston, he’s known for turning complex, data- and context-heavy requirements into resilient, observable platforms that operate across edge devices and multi-cloud environments.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE, Electrical Engineering, MSEE, Electrical Engineering at Drexel UniversityContinuing Education, Java Programming, Continuing Education, Java Programming at Penn State University
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Github Skills (124)
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
entity-framework10
dotnet10
mapper10
database10
csharp10
poco10
orm10
dotnet-core10
tablet10
inversion9
change-tracking9
linux9
maui9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MILL5/yocto
May 2016 - Jun 2019
An extremely small, low on ceremony, high on value Inversion of Control container.
Contributions:82 commits, 72 pushes in 3 years 2 months
inversioncontrol-containerinversion-of-control-containerceremonyinversion-of-control
PacktPublishing/Developing-Microsoft-Azure-Solutions
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, published by Packt
Contributions:56 commits, 33 PRs, 15 pushes in 10 months
developingpowershellazure-solutionspacktmicrosoft-azure
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