Omar Obeya

Born and raised in Egypt. I studied Computer Science in MIT (BS ‘18, M.Eng. ‘19), and…

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• Career path Egypt -> MIT (BS '18, MEng '19) -> Two Sigma (options market making and databases intern, then SWE) -> Hidden Road (billing/core team), a consistent quant-finance systems trajectory.2019
• Won a bronze medal representing Egypt at IOI 2013 in Australia with 257 points (rank 130/299); also competed at IOI 2012 without a medal, marking him as an early Egyptian competitive-programming talent before MIT.Jul 2013
• Co-authored 'Theoretically-Efficient and Practical Parallel In-Place Radix Sorting' (SPAA 2019) with the MIT CSAIL parallel-computing group; code is public at github.com/omarobeya/parallel-inplace-radixsort.2019
• Was a 2017-2018 MIT EECS Draper Laboratory undergraduate research scholar (superUROP), researching 'Parallelizing Saturation Degree Heuristic for Graph Coloring Using Speculative Parallelism' under Daniel Sanchez (MIT CSAIL).2017
• Won a 4th Grand Award in Computer Science at Intel ISEF 2013 (May 2013) for a computer algorithm that slightly improved binary-search efficiency.May 2013
• Hosted season three of the MIT 'UnliMITed' alumni podcast, interviewing accomplished alumni about their careers - public-facing communication on top of a pure engineering track.2021