Summary
Roarke Gaskill is a senior software engineer and pragmatic tech leader with roughly 13 years of hands-on industry experience and nearly two decades of product-focused development across finance, building control, appraisal, and medical domains. He has moved between individual contributor and architecture leadership roles—most recently as Director of Architecture at Summa Financial Technology and now a Senior Software Engineer at FlexTrade—bringing a strong track record of shipping resilient systems under commercial constraints. Known for meticulous attention to packaging and distribution, he pairs deep Java/J2EE and web-stack expertise with a persistent, problem-solving mindset that managers and clients consistently praise. Roarke fosters productive teams and mentors engineers while staying an active lifelong learner, blending technical rigor with Midwestern work ethic. A former CTO and systems architect who has built order management and trading applications (including Google App Engine and AngularJS projects), he brings both startup agility and enterprise discipline to complex engineering challenges.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee