Elbert Benedict

Elbert Benedict is a Singapore-based software engineer at Caladan, a cryptocurrency market-making and proprietary trading firm (previously AlphaLab Capital). He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science (2021-2025). He represented Indonesia at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2021, winning a Bronze Medal. His listed career runs from a Software Engineer role at SecureAge Technology (2022) through an AI Search & Recommendation internship at Huawei (2023) and a Software Engineer internship at Caladan (2024) to a Software Engineer role at Caladan (2025-present).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Elbert Benedict holds an actual software-engineering role at Caladan (start 2025-07) and a prior software-engineering internship at the same firm (May-Dec 2024, when it was Caladan / previously AlphaLab Capital), documented on his LinkedIn profile - these are real roles/internships, not student programs, competitions or incoming offers. Employer classification: Caladan (caladan.xyz) is a quantitative-finance employer - a cryptocurrency market-making and proprietary/algorithmic trading firm (per its own 'Who We Are' page and its Feb 2024 rebrand announcement from AlphaLab Capital, a proprietary trading firm founded 2017); his roles are engineering roles supporting that trading business, not front-office quant researcher/trader roles. Identity is supported: the NUS Computer Science graduate (matric [contact omitted], student A0245772X) matches the IMO 2021 Indonesian bronze medalist via school/email/GitHub cross-links, and the same profile also carries the Huawei 2023 and SecureAge 2022 roles. Limitation: the employment record rests on his own LinkedIn profile (self-reported) rather than an independent company team page; Caladan's public team page does not list him. No primary-source (company/press) confirmation of the role was found.Jul 2025
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Elbert Benedict holds an actual software-engineering role at Caladan (start 2025-07) and a prior software-engineering internship at the same firm (May-Dec 2024, when it was Caladan / previously AlphaLab Capital), documented on his LinkedIn profile - these are real roles/internships, not student programs, competitions or incoming offers. Employer classification: Caladan (caladan.xyz) is a quantitative-finance employer - a cryptocurrency market-making and proprietary/algorithmic trading firm (per its own 'Who We Are' page and its Feb 2024 rebrand announcement from AlphaLab Capital, a proprietary trading firm founded 2017); his roles are engineering roles supporting that trading business, not front-office quant researcher/trader roles. Identity is supported: the NUS Computer Science graduate (matric [contact omitted], student A0245772X) matches the IMO 2021 Indonesian bronze medalist via school/email/GitHub cross-links, and the same profile also carries the Huawei 2023 and SecureAge 2022 roles. Limitation: the employment record rests on his own LinkedIn profile (self-reported) rather than an independent company team page; Caladan's public team page does not list him. No primary-source (company/press) confirmation of the role was found.
• Reports Software Engineer at Caladan starting 2025-07, having interned at the same firm (Caladan, previously AlphaLab Capital) from 2024-05 to 2024-12 - a return to a firm he had already worked at as an intern.Jul 2025
• SWE internship at Caladan (prev AlphaLab Capital), May-Dec 2024, Singapore, per LinkedIn - a paid software-engineering internship (not a competition, camp or insight day). Identity support: same person holds the Huawei 2023 internship and SecureAge 2022 role.May 2024
• Caladan is a cryptocurrency market-making and proprietary trading firm (originally AlphaLab Capital, rebranded Feb 2024); it operates algorithmic strategies across 1000+ digital assets and 65+ exchanges and employs nearly 80 people on 3 continents. Elbert Benedict's roles there are engineering roles at a digital-asset trading firm.Feb 21, 2024
• Competed for Indonesia at IMO 2021 and was awarded a Bronze Medal (rank 180, 71.1%, 15 points; problem scores 7/1/0/7/0/0) - the olympiad identity given in the task is confirmed by the official IMO participant record.Jul 2021
• Earned three NUS School of Computing Focus Area Distinctions, all issued Jul 7 2025: Algorithms & Theory, Networking and Distributed Systems, and Parallel Computing.Jul 7, 2025
• NUS student number A0245772X / matric [contact omitted] ties the Olympiad-cs profile to the NUS Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science (2021-2025), so the IMO 2021 Indonesian medalist and the NUS CS graduate/Caladan engineer are the same person.2022
• Education timeline: SMPK Penabur Gading Serpong (2015-2018), SMAK Penabur Gading Serpong (2018-2021), then NUS Computer Science (2021-2025).2025
• AI Search & Recommendation internship at Huawei (Singapore) in 2023 during his NUS degree - a large technology-company software/AI internship, not a quant role.2023
• Caladan's Who We Are page does not list Elbert Benedict among the team shown; public leadership are John Gu (Co-Founder/CEO) and Nigel Young (CTO). His employment is documented by his LinkedIn profile rather than a company team page.Jul 24, 2026
• TheOrg lists a Caladan org page describing it as one of the earliest market-makers - an aggregator corroboration that Caladan is a genuine crypto market maker, though not a primary source.2026