Bakuri Tsutskhashvili

Bakuri Tsutskhashvili is a software engineer from Georgia, currently listed as a Software Engineer at Google (Warsaw). Identified as the Bakuri Tsutskhashvili who represented Georgia at IMO 2016 (Honourable Mention) and IOI 2016, and competed at CEOI 2015/2016. Educated at Free University of Tbilisi (Computer Science). Prior engineering roles include Software Engineer at OP Solutions Georgia (video compression) and Financial Bureau / ფინანსური ბიურო (debt recovery), and a Software Engineer internship at Birtvi (crypto mining). The public record shows a generalist software-engineering path plus olympiad coaching/jury volunteer work; no quantitative-finance employment was found. Most profile details are index-derived (LinkedIn) unless otherwise cited.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No evidence of any role or internship at a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund, systematic/algorithmic, bank/asset-manager, or energy/crypto trading firm. The three employers on the profile are all non-quant: OP Solutions (Tbilisi video-compression software company), Birtvi (Georgia crypto-mining/blockchain firm, not a trading firm), and Financial Bureau / ფინანსური ბიურო (a Georgian debt-recovery company that purchases non-performing loan portfolios from financial institutions). All observed roles were Software Engineer / Software Engineer Intern, not trading or quant-research roles. Identity is supported (Google SWE plus IMO/IOI contestant); the employment evidence points away from quant finance, so this is a determination, not an unresolved gap.Sep 17, 2026
• Career timeline per the LinkedIn profile index: Software Engineer Intern at Birtvi; Software Engineer at Financial Bureau / ფინანსური ბიურო from Apr 2019 to Mar 2020; Software Engineer at OP Solutions Georgia from Feb 2020 to Apr 2021 (1 yr 3 mo, Tbilisi); then Software Engineer at Google. The unchanged 'Software Engineer' title across a video-compression firm, a crypto-mining firm and a debt-recovery firm shows a generalist software-engineering path rather than a finance/quant track. Source is the LinkedIn profile index, not an independent primary source.
• OP Solutions (employer Feb 2020-Apr 2021) is a video-compression-technology company ('worldwide leader in video compression technology for AI or machine-to-machine use'), and Bakuri is a member of its GitHub org @OP-Solutions; the role is software R&D, not finance.
• Financial Bureau / ფინანსური ბიურო (employer Apr 2019-Mar 2020) is 'the debt recovery company with the broadest loan portfolio in Georgia, which purchases assets from financial institutions' - a debt-collection/NPL purchaser, not a quant trading firm, so its Software Engineer role is not quantitative finance.
• Birtvi (early internship) is a Georgia crypto-mining and blockchain firm (Crunchbase/Eurasianet describe mining operations and a 40 MW data centre) rather than a trading or market-making business, despite the crypto-sector label.
• GitHub open-source footprint (github.com/bakurits) includes mattermost-plugin-anonymous (Mattermost end-to-end encryption plugin, Go, ~27 stars), MPLib (decentralized mental-poker library, C#) as an @OP-Solutions member, plus systems/CS repos (PintOS, cachefs using Libfuse+Memcached, Algorithms, information-theory assignments).
• GitHub profile lists 39 repositories and ~26 followers, shows the @OP-Solutions organization, and carries no external website/email; the identity cross-link is its own 'www.linkedin.com/in/bakurits' plus the '@google' company field.
• Candidate X/Twitter handle @bakurits: an x.com post by GeorgianFooty carries the display name 'Bakuri Tsutskhashvili' beside the handle @bakurits (Mar 2024, Feb 2025 posts); the account could not be opened directly to confirm ownership, so the handle is recorded as a candidate, not a verified account.Mar 1, 2024