Adrian Budau

Romanian software engineer and competitive-programming champion. Represented Romania at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), winning silver in 2011 and gold (7th place) in 2012. Studied Computer Science at the University of Bucharest, then worked across US and UK tech (Adobe, Twitter, Dropbox, Jane Street) before returning to Bucharest for senior engineering roles at Bitdefender and, since 2022, Ogre AI.

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• Quant employment verification - CONFIRMEDJul 1, 2016
• Quant employment verification - CONFIRMED LinkedIn lists a Software Engineer role at Jane Street (London), 2016 (Facebook corroborates Jun 30-Oct 31, 2016). Jane Street (janestreet.com) is a quantitative trading firm and market maker, so this is a genuine past role at a real quant firm, not a student program.
• Quant employment verification (see dedicated note below).
• Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm / market maker; LinkedIn records a Software Engineer role there in London dated 2016, i.e. an actual (approx. 4-month, Jul-Oct) role rather than a competition or insight program.
• Synthesis: his career splits cleanly - Romanian Olympiad roots -> Ivy-free Bucharest CS + US internships (Adobe/Twitter/Dropbox) -> short London quant stint at Jane Street -> return to Bucharest for senior roles in cybersecurity (Bitdefender) then energy-tech AI (Ogre AI). The only quant-finance employer in the whole timeline is Jane Street.
• Current role: Senior Software Engineer at Ogre AI (Bucharest) since Oct 2022 - Ogre AI builds electricity/utility demand forecasting using AI, per its own profile (ogre.ai).
• Jane Street role was short (~4 months, mid-2016) and was classic software engineering, not a trading/quant-strategy seat; his LinkedIn titles across the career are all Software Engineer variants.
• Current role: Senior Software Engineer at Ogre AI (Bucharest) since Oct 2022. Ogre AI is an energy-tech startup that applies AI to electricity demand and price forecasting and raised a EUR 3M round led by Verbund X Ventures - it is energy/AI software, NOT a quantitative trading or quant-finance firm.
• IOI 2012: Gold medal, 7th place overall, 456/600 (98.06 percentile) for Romania - the identity anchor for the profile.
• Prior: Senior Software Engineer at Bitdefender (cybersecurity), 2018-2022, 4 years.
• US tech internships while still a student: Adobe Tech Intern (2012), Twitter Growth Intern (2013), Dropbox Software Engineering Intern, iOS (2014), then Dropbox Software Engineer, Android (2015) in San Francisco.
• IOI 2012: Gold medal, 7th place, score 456/600 (98.06 pct), representing Romania - the Olympic identity anchor (stats.ioinformatics.org/people/45).