Hayden Roche

Hayden Roche has been working in the field of software engineering since 2012. Hayden began their career as a Summer Employee at Midtown Wine and Spirits in 2013 and then at LifeView Outdoors in 2012. In 2015, they took on a Web Development Intern role at Cohub, where they worked on the front end and back end of their admin and storefront sites. In 2016, Roche held several roles at Washington University in St. Louis, including Computer Architecture TA, Intro to Digital Logic and Computer Design TA, and Translation of Computer Languages TA. That same year, they were an FPGA Signal Processing Intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where they learned signal processing from scratch and delivered an FPGA-based digital signal processing pipeline written in VHDL. In 2017, Roche worked as a Hardware/Software Engineer at IMC - financial markets, where they designed ultra low latency solutions for their high frequency trading operations. Hayden then became a Co-founder at Fratapus in 2014, where they developed many of their core features and created the Fratapus iOS app. In 2020, Roche joined wolfSSL as a Software Engineer, where they wrote C code for a variety of architectures and platforms. Currently, they are a Senior Software Engineer at Blues Wireless.

Hayden Roche obtained a high school diploma from University School of Nashville in 2013. Hayden then attended Washington University in St. Louis, where they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering in 2016. In February 2015, they obtained Wilderness First Aid certification from the American Red Cross. In August 2017, they obtained a Series 57 - Securities Trader Representative Exam certification from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).