Bartłomiej Czarkowski

Bartłomiej Czarkowski is a Polish computer scientist and competitive programmer (Codeforces handle 'Asymmetry'). He won a silver medal representing Poland at IOI 2021 (rank 43) and later bronze at the 47th ICPC World Finals (2023) with the University of Warsaw 'Warsaw Eagles' team. He studied Computer Science at the University of Warsaw. His LinkedIn profile lists him as Founding Engineer at Sentinel Eagle (Warsaw, from 2025) and previously Software Engineer at Jane Street (London, 2024).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Employment evidence: a LinkedIn post authored by Bartlomiej Czarkowski states 'I'm glad to share that I'm a SWE Intern at Jane Street this summer!' (summer 2024), and his LinkedIn profile lists 'Software Engineer, Jane Street, lip 2024 - wrz 2024' (3 months). Identity is supported: the LinkedIn profile is the IOI/ICPC competitor (ICPC EUC Champion honors, University of Warsaw) with the same name, and it cross-links his competitive-programming record. Employer classification: Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and market maker, so the software-engineering internship is a genuine quantitative-finance role (a real internship, not a student program, insight day, camp, scholarship, or offer). All other candidate employers checked were NOT quant finance: Sentinel Eagle (current, since 2025) is an autonomous-UAV/defense company ('quant' is not in its name and it is not a trading firm); no other quant, bank, asset-manager, energy, or crypto trading role was found.Jul 2024
• Announced on LinkedIn: 'I'm glad to share that I'm a SWE Intern at Jane Street this summer!' (summer 2024); the 3-month Jul-Sep 2024 role on his profile is therefore a software-engineering internship at the quant trading firm Jane Street in London, not a full-time position.Jul 2024
• Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm / market maker; a SWE internship there is a genuine quantitative-finance role (not a student program, insight day, or competition).2024
• Since 2025 he is Founding Engineer at Sentinel Eagle (Warsaw), an AI/autonomous-UAV defense company founded by Marek Cygan (UW professor, Nomagic co-founder) — engineering, not quantitative finance.2025
• Silver medal representing Poland at IOI 2021 (rank 43, 341 points), hosted by Singapore — his headline Olympiad result.Jun 25, 2021
• Sentinel Eagle builds autonomous UAV systems and non-GNSS (GPS-denied) navigation; its product is the 'Crow' long-endurance airframe with visual navigation — confirming the employer is a drones/defense firm, so the 'quant' search on its name is a false lead.2025
• Sentinel Eagle's founder/CEO Marek Cygan is a University of Warsaw professor and Nomagic co-founder; Czarkowski joining as founding engineer links him to the UW algorithmic/competitive-programming research circle.2025
• 1st place / Champion at the 2024 ICPC European Championship as the only competitor solving 9 of 11 tasks — his strongest senior competitive-programming result.2024
• Won bronze medal at the 47th ICPC World Finals 2023 with the University of Warsaw 'Warsaw Eagles' team alongside Arkadiusz Czarkowski and Tomasz Nowak.2023
• Codeforces handle 'Asymmetry' (Poland) is the same person: cphof.org cross-links the Codeforces profile Asymmetry to his IOI profile; a verified competitive-programming identity anchor.2021
• Studied Computer Science (Bachelor's) at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics (MIMUW).
• Member of the University of Warsaw competitive-programming team with Arkadiusz Czarkowski and Tomasz Nowak across the ICPC 2022-2024 seasons.2024