Sebastian Klose

Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Tech Lead with a focus on Systems and API Design for backend systems and frameworks. Experienced building large-scale distributed systems as well as low latency / high throughput applications. ❤️ Rust

Experience

  • Staff Software Engineer, Order Routing at Robinhood
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Markets Engineering Lead at NYDIG
    Aug 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    working on cool crypto stuff

  • Principal Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
    Feb 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    Intelligent Retail Lab by Walmart

  • Tech Lead, OMS at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
    Apr 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

    design and build low latency, high throughput order management system based on LMAX design

  • ACA Technology (Manhattan, New York)
    • Senior Software Engineer
      Jul 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

      As a leading member of the core research and development team our objective is to apply best practices of software engineering in order to increase maintainability, stability and performance. This is achieved by refactoring, rearchitecting and reimplementing existing features. Alongside to fulfill new business requirements we are also designing, implementing and testing new features. The main technologies used are: Microsoft .NET (Windows Forms, WPF, WCF, Entity Framework), Microsoft SQL Server, Powershell, Postsharp, ProtoBuf, ZeroMQ, Structuremap, DevExpress, Infragistics, TeamCity for CI/CD.

    • Consultant
      Nov 2011 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      I started as a front-office technology consultant for different ACA clients. This involved constant communication with the client to collect requirements and present solutions. As a result I delivered customized trade capture systems, trade allocation systems, portfolio management systems, execution management systems and integrated with Bloomberg, FIX, ICE Link and Imagine. The asset classes I mainly dealt with are Equities, Options, (Cleared) CDS/CDX, Bonds and Asset Backed Securities.