Gergely Farago

Gergely Farago is a software engineer based in London, England. As of his LinkedIn profile he is a Software Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies (from 2025), a London-headquartered quantitative investment manager. Before that he spent about seven years (2018-2025) as a Software Engineer at Google in London, working on Google Play Console, Google Search and Google Maps, and roughly eighteen years (2000-2018) as a Software Developer at Hardcastle Trading in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (1993-1998). This profile summary is drawn from an index/aggregator (LinkedIn-derived enrichment); see notes for sourcing and the separate Olympiad identity question.

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• Quant employment verification - CONFIRMED. Gergely Farago held an actual long role as Software Developer at Hardcastle Trading, Budapest (2000-2018) and an actual current role as Software Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies, London (from 2025). Employer classification: Hardcastle Trading is an options market-making / proprietary trading firm that traded on the major EU and US exchanges (a former Hardcastle developer describes it as 'an options market making company trading on the biggest exchanges in the EU and US'; PEAK6 acquired Hardcastle Trading AG in Dec 2020), so it operates in quantitative market-making; Qube Research & Technologies is a global systematic/quantitative investment manager (hedge fund) headquartered in London. Identity is supported by convergent evidence: the IMO contestant (Hungary 1992-93) enrolled at BME 1993-1998, matching the indexed LinkedIn education, and a Hungarian math-camp testimonial describes 'Farago Gergely' as a Budapest financial-IT specialist. Caveat: the exact role titles/dates are LinkedIn-index-derived (index-only), not confirmed by a primary employer page; the employer classification and the identity linkage rest on the independent sources cited.2026
• Hardcastle Trading is an options market-making / proprietary trading firm - a former developer there describes it as 'an options market making company trading on the biggest exchanges in the EU and US'; its homepage routes careers through careers.peak6.com.2026
• Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a London-headquartered global systematic/quantitative investment manager (hedge fund) deploying capital across asset classes; the Software Engineer role there is therefore a quant-finance engineering role, not general software.2026
• INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn-derived enrichment; not independent primary confirmation): Software Engineer at Qube Research & Technologies, London, from 2025; previously Software Engineer at Google, London (2018-2025) on Google Play Console, Google Search and Google Maps; earlier Software Developer at Hardcastle Trading, Budapest (2000-2018).2026
• The math-Olympiad identity and the software-engineer identity are the same person: the IMO contestant's BME enrolment window (1993-1998) matches the indexed LinkedIn education (BME, 1993-1998, Computer Software Engineering), and an independent Hungarian math-camp testimonial page describes 'Farago Gergely' as a 'Budapest financial IT' specialist, consistent with the Budapest Hardcastle Trading developer role.2025
• Gold medal at IMO 1993 (Hungary): ranked 19th, 32/42 (problem scores 7,7,0,6,7,5). Cited to the IMO official results, not an aggregator.Jul 1993
• Career shape: ~18 years at a Budapest options market-maker (2000-2018), ~7 years at Google London (2018-2025), then into a London quant hedge fund in 2025 - a long-tenured platform/product engineering profile rather than a sequence of short quant stints.2026
• PEAK6 acquired Hardcastle Trading AG (Rapperswil, Switzerland) in December 2020 - the group affiliation behind the careers.peak6.com link; the Budapest entity is the same Hardcastle trading operation the subject worked at 2000-2018.Dec 22, 2020
• Bronze medal at IMO 1992 (Hungary): ranked 100th, 20/42. Cited to IMO official individual results.Jul 1992
• No GitHub, personal website, blog, X/Twitter account, authored articles or published projects surfaced under this identity in the searches run; the public footprint is limited to the LinkedIn profile and the Olympiad record.2026
• Competed as a student of Fazekas Mihaly Gyakorlogimnazium, Budapest; a 1998 Termeszet Vilaga retrospective lists 'Farago Gergely (Budapest, Fazekas Mihaly Gyakorlogimnazium)' among Hungarian IMO contestants - naming the high school behind the Olympiad identity.1998