Davi Cavalcanti Sena

Davi Cavalcanti Sena is a Brazilian software engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. He represented Brazil at the 58th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2017) in Rio de Janeiro, winning a silver medal per the official IMO results and the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad (OBM) team listing. He studied Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (BSc, 2018-2023) and held software engineering internships at Microsoft, Coursera, Huawei Canada and PointClickCare, plus a Quantitative Researcher Intern role at Giant Steps Capital (Sao Paulo). He maintains the personal site odavisena1945.org ('Project Brahman').

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Giant Steps Capital is a quantitative investment manager (Businesswire 2021-06-04 describes it as 'the largest quantitative investment manager in Brazil' and 'the leader in systematic funds'). The candidate role, 'Quantitative Researcher Intern, Giant Steps Capital, Sao Paulo, 2020-2021', appears in the LinkedIn work history of Davi Cavalcanti Sena (INDEX-ONLY). Identity is supported: the same profile carries Mathematics Olympiad silver (IMO 2017), University of Waterloo CS, and a Colégio Ari de Sá TA role, consistent with the IMO identity (Recife, PE, silver 2017). Employer classification is primary-sourced; the role itself rests on index data and no primary document (offer, company page, byline) was found corroborating it.Jun 4, 2021
• Won a silver medal for Brazil at the 58th IMO 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, listed as 'Davi Cavalcanti Sena - Recife - PE - Prata' in the OBM official team result.Jul 24, 2017
• Software Engineer at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, working on tooling and reporting for the Incentives Data Platform; INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn work history).2023
• BSc Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2018-2023; INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn education).2023
• Prior software internships, INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn work history): Microsoft SWE Intern 2022 (Redmond); Coursera SWE Intern 2022 (Toronto, backend-for-frontend); Huawei Technologies Canada AI Research Engineer Intern 2021 (Markham, HMI); PointClickCare SWE Intern 2019 (Waterloo, full stack).2022
• Brazilian press (JC Online) reported the Pernambuco native as a 16-year-old silver medallist at the 2017 Mathematics Olympiad.Jul 22, 2017
• Personal site odavisena1945.org, titled 'Project Brahman', describes 'a lifelong program of systematic self-cultivation' that studies canons and improves against measurable benchmarks.2025
• Teaching Assistant at Colégio Ari de Sá Cavalcante, Fortaleza, Ceará, 2016, the school network tied to his Olympiad preparation.2016