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 (37)
simulation10
libunwind10
multiplatform10
low-latency10
linux10
conda10
chrono10
self-hosting10
dbus10
printf10
cryptocurrency10
api10
stacktrace10
fixprotocol10
unicode10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
roq-trading/roq-cpp-algo-template
Sep 2024 - Jul 2026
C++ algo template project.
Contributions:150 pushes, 1 branch, 7 tags in 1 year 9 months
cppalgo-tradingalgorithmic-tradingback-testingcrypto-markets
roq-trading/roq-cpp-client-template
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026
C++ client template project.
Contributions:235 pushes, 5 branches, 16 tags in 3 years 6 months
cpptemplatecpp26
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