Hans Thrane
Founder at Roq Trading Solutions
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolHans Thrane is a founder and seasoned quant technologist with over two decades of hands-on software engineering—30 years of C/C++ and deep experience building ultra-low latency trading systems for FX, rates, credit and commodities. He has led algorithmic trading and quant development across major banks and his own startups, delivering robust tick-capture engines and modular market-making toolkits used in production at scale. Equally comfortable in system architecture, library development and performance optimization, he pairs technical depth with strategic input to senior management and product decisions. Notably, he has engineered a C++ tick-database that handled >300bn messages with multi-year uptime and built an open, FIX-enabled trading toolkit to give quants full control over execution. Based in Lausanne, he blends proprietary trading experience with consulting and productization for early-stage funds, often bridging research, trading and IT.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Finance and International Business, Master of Science (MSc), Finance and International Business at Aarhus School of Business
Danish, English, German, French
Github Skills (47)
crypto10
market-maker10
simulation10
trading-algorithms10
multiplatform10
trading10
testing10
low-latency10
formatting10
chrono10
formatter10
ranges10
cross-platform10
backtesting10
historical10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
roq-trading/roq-api
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
C++ interfaces used to communicate with Roq's market gateways.
Contributions:67 releases, 1471 commits, 854 pushes in 5 years 4 months
exchangesimulationhigh-frequencytrading-platformmarket-data
roq-trading/roq-algo
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch, 5 tags in 9 months
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