Askhat Zhalgasov

Software engineer with a competitive-programming background (IOI 2017 Bronze for Kazakhstan), a CS degree from CUHK and an HKU Statistics Master's. Worked as a low-latency Software Developer at Hong Kong equity-derivatives trading firm Eclipse Trading, after a summer technical analyst role at Credit Suisse and internships at Nex and Yandex.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED - employment evidence is a full-time Software Developer role at Eclipse Trading (2022-2024, HK equity-derivatives proprietary trading firm, low-latency) plus a 2021 Credit Suisse Summer Technical Analyst role in Java/C# algo-trading development. Both are actual roles/internships, not student programs, and identity is supported by the IOI 2017 record and CUHK CS degree. Caveat: the employment history is index/LinkedIn-derived and not independently corroborated by the employers' own pages; the Credit Suisse role is a summer internship, not a permanent quant role, and the CS internships at Nex and Yandex are not quantitative-finance roles.2024
• Eclipse Trading is an equity-derivatives proprietary trading firm based in Hong Kong, per its own site ('Equity Derivatives Trading Firm'). The role therefore sits at a proprietary trading/market-making firm, not a bank or asset manager; the firm's classification rests on a primary source while his role there rests on index data only.2026
• Software Developer at Eclipse Trading, Hong Kong, 2022-2024, described on the profile as low-latency work. Index/LinkedIn-derived only; not confirmed in an Eclipse primary source (the firm's public 'Our People' page does not list him).Sep 2022
• Summer Technical Analyst at Credit Suisse (2021), described as Java/C# algo-trading development; a bank summer program in an algorithmic-trading-adjacent team, an internship rather than a permanent quant role. Index/LinkedIn-derived.2021
• Represented Kazakhstan at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2017 and won a Bronze medal (score 201.32, rank 108/304, 33.55%). Primary source: IOI official statistics.2017
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Master's degree in Statistics, The University of Hong Kong (2024). Index/LinkedIn-derived; the HKU Master's is in statistics, not finance.2024
• Software Developer Internship at Nex, Hong Kong (2020), work described as Python/Swift computer vision; not a quantitative-finance role. Index/LinkedIn-derived.2020
• Software Development Intern at Yandex, Moscow (2019), described as C++ anti-fraud engineering; not a quantitative-finance role. Index/LinkedIn-derived.2019
• Codeforces handle 'SmallBoy': the IOI record links a Codeforces profile, and the competitive-programming aggregator cphof.org associates the name 'Askhat Zhalgasov' with handle 'SmallBoy'. Aggregator-linked, so treat the handle as probable rather than independently confirmed.2017