Edvard Poliakov

Software engineer and CTO based in Lithuania, educated in mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Represented Lithuania at the IMO in 2009 and 2011. Career spans software development (Softwire, Danske Bank, Euromonitor International) and executive roles: CTO of blockchain identity startup Safein (2018), CTO of Eldorado.gg (2018-present), and CTO of Humbility, an algorithmic cryptocurrency trading firm, 2021-2024.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. He held an actual executive role (CTO) at Humbility from 2021-09 to 2024-10, a firm classified in the company index as an algorithmic cryptocurrency arbitrage trading firm (DeFi/CeFi, multi-exchange, low-latency). Identity is independently supported: IMO participant record, Cambridge mathematics, the 2018 Safein CTO announcement, and the same LinkedIn profile. Employer classification rests on the ClickHouse company index (company_id 138932447, domain humbility.io) - an index-only description, not independent primary-source confirmation. Caveats: a crypto systematic/arbitrage trading firm is quant-adjacent (systematic, algorithmic, market-making-like) but is not a classic equities/FX quant fund or bank prop desk, and his role was technical leadership (CTO), not a titled quant researcher or trader. No other role in his history is quantitative: Eldorado.gg is a game-items marketplace, Safein a blockchain identity/wallet startup, Danske Bank a general software role, Euromonitor and Softwire plain software. No quantitative internships were found.Sep 17, 2026
• Served as CTO of Humbility from 2021-09 to 2024-10; the company index classifies Humbility under Capital Markets and describes it as an algorithmic digital-asset trading firm operating across multiple exchanges (index-only claim, company_id 138932447, domain humbility.io).Oct 2024
• The 2018-05-09 Medium post announcing him as CTO of blockchain-identity startup Safein describes him as a Cambridge mathematics graduate who 'enjoys solving problems', and names co-founder Vladas Jurkevicius - a Cambridge classmate - as his recommender, indicating the Safein role came through a Cambridge network tie rather than a cold process.May 9, 2018
• Has been CTO of Eldorado.gg, a game-items marketplace, since 2018; his LinkedIn headline ('CTO at Humbility and Eldorado.gg') shows both CTO roles ran concurrently in 2021-2024, a dual-executive arrangement rather than a sequential career move.2018
• Represented Lithuania at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2009 (Honourable Mention, 393) and again in 2011 (253); a two-time IMO national-team contestant.Jul 2011
• Earlier engineering roles: Tech Lead at Euromonitor International (2017-2018, Vilnius), Software Developer at Danske Bank (2016-2017, Vilnius) and at Softwire (2015-2016, London), and Cognition Research Intern at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (2013, Cambridge).2018
• Studied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (BA, 2011-2014); secondary schooling at Vilniaus licejus in Vilnius.2014
• GitHub account EddyP23 (display name 'Edvardas Poliakovas') shows Angular/TypeScript work (angular2-detectChanges-demo, ngrx store issues), consistent with a front-end/CTO engineering profile rather than quant or low-latency trading code.2018
• The Danske Bank software-developer stint (2016-2017) was a general engineering seat at a bank, not a quantitative or trading role, so it does not constitute quant-finance experience.2017
• Was an Olympiad Mathematics Teacher at the National Students' Academy (Nacionaline moksleiviu akademija) in Lithuania, 2011-2014, overlapping his Cambridge studies.2014
• Registered director/manager of Upupa epops, MB, a small Vilnius-registered entity (company code 307574118) - a company-registry record rather than evidence of an operating business.2020