Francis Rohner
Lead Software Engineer @ TradeZero
Austin, Texas, United States
About
Software & web developer with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems, micro-services, and internal tooling. I lead a team at TradeZero, designing resilient .NET services and T-SQL data layers that hold up under real market pressure.
Skills & Tech
.NET
C#
SQL / T-SQL
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
HTML
CSS
SCSS
PHP
Micro-services
Experience
Lead Software Engineer
TradeZero
May 2019 — Present
Brooklyn, NY
- Manage and mentor a team of developers.
- Refactored onboarding to withstand heavy traffic during signup bursts driven by market events.
- Built and maintain a Scheduler service for automated actions such as payment processing.
- Built and maintain the MiddleOffice application for internal customers (account management, reporting, and more).
- Integrated the stack with third-party systems — KYC, Clearing, Analytics, and FX.
- Designed and optimized T-SQL database schemas and stored procedures.
- Built micro-services to phase out reliance on monolithic systems.
Software Developer
Electro Industries
Jul 2016 — Apr 2019
Westbury, NY
- Worked on an automated firmware update system.
- Maintained software for polling and configuring electrical meters.
- Wrote software for automating production processes.
Education
Stony Brook University
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
2012 — 2015
Nassau Community College
Associate Degree, Computer Science
2009 — 2011