Enes Kocabey

Enes Kocabey is a software/quantitative engineer with an MIT Computer Science bachelor's (2015-2019). He competed for Turkiye at the 2014 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal (28/42, rank 50), and was reported by contemporaneous Turkish press to have been admitted to MIT with a $65,000 scholarship. His professional track runs from Software Engineer at Waymo (2020-2024) to Quantitative Developer at Tower Research Capital (2024-present, New York), a proprietary high-frequency trading firm. Identity is supported by the MIT-compatible biography and the Turkish Olympiad-to-MIT reporting; the LinkedIn career record is self-reported.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Enes Kocabey is listed on LinkedIn as Quantitative Developer at Tower Research Capital (New York), 2024-present, and the same role appears in a company org/team listing and a professional contact database, so an actual role (not a student program) is supported. Identity is supported by the MIT Computer Science bachelor's and the Turkish IMO-2014 narrative linking the same name to MIT. Tower Research Capital is a proprietary high-frequency/algorithmic trading firm, i.e. quantitative finance. The org-database and contact-database listings are aggregators (index-only), not independent primary-source confirmation; the underlying LinkedIn profile is self-reported.2024
• Employer classification: Tower Research Capital is a proprietary high-frequency trading firm (theorg lists a Quantitative Analysis team and its trading/technology org), so the 2024 Quantitative Developer role sits squarely in quantitative/systematic trading - not a generic software firm.2026
• Won a Silver Medal for Turkiye at the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad (2014, Cape Town), scoring 28/42 (7,6,1,7,7,0).Jul 2014
• Cross-source read: this is a rare profile with a public, verifiable Olympiad record but an almost entirely self-reported career track - the IMO medal and MIT admission are documented by independent sources (IMO, TUBITAK, Turkish press), while the Waymo and Tower roles rest only on the LinkedIn profile and aggregator echoes of it, so the pre-2020 biography is stronger than the employment history.2026
• A separate namesake 'Enes Kocabey' authored computer-vision/social-media papers (Face-to-BMI, #Halal Culture on Instagram, weight/BMI studies) with Ferda Ofli, Ingmar Weber and Mila-affiliated co-authors; this publication record is NOT attributed to the Tower Research subject, a caution that search results under this name mix at least two distinct people.2017
• Admitted to MIT with a $65,000 scholarship while a first-year Computer Engineering student at Bogazici University, and identified at the time as a student of Fatih Koleji (high school).2015
• The only current-profile candidate whose biography fits the IMO-medalist/MIT trajectory; the other 'Enes Kocabey' profiles are Turkiye-based retail/freelance roles in Kayseri and Bursa with no compatible education or career.2026
• Worked as a Software Engineer at Waymo (2020-2024) before moving to Tower Research Capital; Waymo is an autonomous-vehicle company, not a quantitative-finance employer, so this leg is engineering, not quant.2024
• Earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from MIT (2015-2019); the dates align with prior enrollment at Bogazici/finishing high school and with a high-school graduation around 2014-2015.2019
• Ranked 50th overall (91.3%) at IMO 2014 among all contestants.Jul 2014
• Contemporaneous Turkish press describes his family background (father a taxi driver, mother a homemaker) and the tuition-funding gap he faced; the article is the primary identity link between the medalist and MIT admission, corroborated at the time by a second outlet.2015
• Listed among Turkiye's science-olympiad alumni (International Mathematics Olympiad, silver) on the national TUBITAK olympiad alumni page.2014