# Adrien Truong > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/adrientruong Feel free to contact me at adrien.truong (at) me.com. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Robinhood Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States Backend tech lead for various parts of margin, cash sweep, and stock lending * Mentored junior engineers through 1:1’s, knowledge sharing sessions, and code reviews * Mitigated black swan technical risks for trading systems that could lead to $10-100M+ financial loss by creating and aligning on roadmap with senior eng and ops leaders * Drove tens of millions in revenue by creating regulatory-compliant system for Stock Lending recommendations. Received spot bonus for above and beyond work * Increased margin revenue by migrating billing system that processes ~$200M+ yearly to a tiered rate structure to attract large accounts from competitors ### Software Engineer II @ Robinhood Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States Options Trading (until August 2022) * Led backend development for Advanced Charts by collaborating with multiple eng and ops teams. Delivered the highest revenue impact of any launch at Robinhood in 2022. * Became a domain expert for options backend and led several critical incident responses Margin (August 2022 onwards) * Worked on a product team to drive growth of Robinhood's margin business * Mentored an intern (code reviews, guiding them through a design doc, giving feedback) ### Software Engineer I @ Robinhood Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States Options Trading * Came in with no options knowledge and quickly built up domain knowledge by collaborating with SMEs * Worked cross functionally with designers and PMs to build new features for options trading (Instant/In-App Exercise and Options Watchlist) * Improved system reliability and automated brokerage operations to save time and remove risk of human error * Participated in oncall rotation (was oncall during GameStop incident when traffic tripled overnight) and drove improvements to reduce weekly oncall hours from >25 to <15 ### Software Engineering Intern @ Opendoor Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Pricing team ### Associate Product Manager Intern @ Google Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Zürich Area, Switzerland Travel on Google Assistant ### Developer - Self Made App @ Grades for Parents and Students Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 Stats: 1 million+ downloads. 200k+ daily active users. Developed Grades for Parents and Students, an iOS and Android app for students to check grades and enter in mock assignments to estimate future grades Used by over 350 school districts and recommended by school counselors and teachers https://www.pvhspoint.org/features/2016/10/17/the-ten-best-apps-for-studying/ https://eyeofthetigernews.com/10694 https://smhsponyexpress.org/2018/05/29/grades-app-no-longer-available-for-use/ https://lahstalon.org/popular-grades-app-removed-from-app-store/ http://portolapilot.com/grades-app-taken-off-app-store/ https://www.change.org/p/vinh-truong-bring-back-the-grades-app https://bruinvoice.net/2761/news/aeries-app-challenges-study-habits-and-allows-hypothetical-grade-manipulation/ ### Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, CA Worked on Dropbox Paper to improve offline mode ### Software Engineering Intern @ Apple Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cupertino, CA Worked on the Apple Music team improving the frameworks powering the iOS Music app ### Freelance iOS Developer @ Contractor Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 Did some freelance iOS development back in the day. Talked with clients and built apps that met their needs. ### Hackathon Organizer @ TeenHacks Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Started a 250 person high school hackathon in Southern California focused on introducing students to programming. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Stanford University Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Sunny Hills High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adrientruong --- Source: https://flows.cv/adrientruong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/adrientruong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22