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- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. A supported identity (LinkedIn Markham/Canada + IOI + uWaterloo) plus an actual internship — Jane Street Software Engineer Intern, 2025 — where Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm and the cited intern write-up describes testing of trading systems. Bloomberg (Tradebook, an electronic-trading venue) is a second trading-adjacent internship; both are internships, not student programs. Databricks and Waabi are not quantitative finance.2025
- Jane Street 2025 software engineering intern: built a quickcheck-like randomised property-testing system for automated tests of trading systems, with shrinking heuristics for minimal test cases.2025
- Jane Street internship supports a quantitative-finance employment claim: Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm and the cited intern project targeted trading systems directly.2025
- Identity anchor: IOI contestant profile lists Allen Pei representing Canada in both 2021 and 2022, matching the LinkedIn (Markham, Canada) and uWaterloo CS profile.Aug 15, 2022
- Databricks Software Engineer Intern (Bellevue, WA) is listed as the current role on LinkedIn; a data/AI platform, not quantitative finance.2026
- Bloomberg Software Engineer Intern, Tradebook Division (2025) — Tradebook is Bloomberg's electronic-trading venue; a trading-technology-adjacent role distinct from Jane Street's prop-trading role.2025
- IOI 2022: silver medal, rank 34.Aug 2022
- IOI 2021: silver medal, rank 32 (score 394.89/600).Jun 2021
- Canadian Computing Olympiad 2022: Gold medal (LinkedIn claim; LinkedIn-only).
- uWaterloo ICPC 2023-2024 'Waterloo Gold' team member (with Chris Trevisan, Mars Xiang), per university news on the ICPC East Central North America contest.
- Bloomberg Software Engineer Intern, Asset and Investment Manager Division (2024); listed on LinkedIn, not independently corroborated by a press source.2024
- 'Dormi' (Allen Pei) named on Canada's 2022 IOI team alongside Ryan Bai, Zixiang Zhou and Edward Xiao.Jul 2022
Experience
Software Engineer Intern at Databricks
Software Engineer Intern at Jane Street
Software Engineer Intern at Bloomberg (Tradebook Division)
Software Engineer Intern at Bloomberg (Asset & Investment Manager Division)
Research Intern at Waabi (Motion Planning Team)
Software Engineer Intern at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Tradebook Division
Research Intern at Waabi
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Motion Planning Team
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
University of Toronto Schools
AchievementsSilver medal, International Olympiad in Informatics 2021 (rank 32) and 2022 (rank 34), representing Canada · Gold medal, Canadian Computing Olympiad 2022 · Member of University of Waterloo's 'Waterloo Gold' team at ICPC East Central North America 2023-2024
AwardsSilver medal, IOI 2021 (Canada) · Silver medal, IOI 2022 (Canada) · Gold medal, Canadian Computing Olympiad 2022
Profiles
Competition record
Canada · IOI