Filip Borowiec

Filip Borowiec is a Polish software engineer and founder. He represented Poland at the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning silver in 2010 and gold in 2011, then studied at the University of Warsaw (2011-2015). Early engineering roles included internships at NVIDIA (CUDA FFT), imo messenger and Dropbox, and engineering/CTO work at Filmaster (acquired by Samba TV) and Samba TV. Per the LinkedIn index he worked as a Quantitative Developer at Jump Trading LLC in London (2017-2021), then co-founded Polka as CTO (2021) and has since been Co-Founder and CEO of a stealth venture (2022-).

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only quant-finance role is 'Quantitative Developer' at Jump Trading LLC, London, 2017-05 to 2021-02, which appears solely in the LinkedIn/local index and could not be corroborated by any independent source in this run. Jump Trading itself is a verified quantitative proprietary-trading/market-making firm (Wikipedia: 'American financial market trading firm', products incl. proprietary trading), so the employer classification is a genuine quant firm - but the role claim remains index-only. No other quant-finance role or internship was found; no quant roles at banks, asset managers, or energy/crypto trading firms surfaced.2026
• Career backbone per LinkedIn index (local index-only, not independent primary-source confirmation): Co-Founder & CEO at 'Stealth' (2022-present); Co-Founder & CTO at Polka (2021); Quantitative Developer at Jump Trading LLC, London (2017-2021); Software Engineer at Samba TV (2016-2017); CTO at Internest Ltd. (2015-2017); Dropbox SWE intern (2015); imo messenger SWE intern (2014-2015); NVIDIA SWE intern (2014); Filmaster SWE (2013-2014, acquired by Samba TV 2015).2026
• IMO 2011 (Poland): gold medal, rank 25, 29 points; IMO 2010 (Poland): silver medal, rank 106, 21 points. Per imo-official.org results pages.Jul 2011
• Career trajectory spans early ML/graphics engineering (NVIDIA CUDA FFT internship, imo messenger, Dropbox iOS) then a four-year quant-dev tenure at Jump Trading and a pivot to startup founding (Polka CTO -> stealth CEO); the transition from large-firm quant engineering to early-stage founder is the defining arc, though no source documents reasoning.2026
• BetaList profile 'Filip Borowiec' (@pre_serenity) lists him as 'CTO of Polka', a Zoom icebreaker-meetings tool ('Make your meetings better'), corroborating the Polka CTO role off the LinkedIn index.2021
• Reported by Polish regional outlet Echo Dnia (2011-04-22) as a student of I Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace in Kielce from Suchedniow, described as one of the world's best young mathematicians.Apr 22, 2011
• Represented Poland at the 59th (2009/10) and 60th (2010/11) Czechoslovak/Slovak-hosted competitions; 106th-151st at IMO 2010 (silver) and 25th at IMO 2011 (gold) per skmo.sk participation record.2011
• Education per LinkedIn index: University of Warsaw, 2011-2015; no degree name recorded in the index.2015
• MIMUW (University of Warsaw faculty) achievement page records 19th place in the XXII Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition (2012).2012
• GitHub account 'Filomilo' (repos incl. 3D_Particle_Simulator, gui-testing-library) is a plausible but name-matched account; no cross-link to his LinkedIn/known employer was found, so treated as an unverified alias only.2026