Hua Zhi Vee

Competitive programmer (IOI 2021/2022/2023 - Bronze, Bronze, Silver; IMO 2020 Honourable Mention; IOI 2024 Malaysia Deputy Leader). BComp (Hons) Computer Science, NUS 2023-2026, Certificate of Distinction in Parallel Computing. Listed as Quantitative Developer at DRW Singapore (2026-) after a Quantitative Developer internship there (2025).

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only recorded employment is DRW (Quantitative Developer, Singapore, from 2026-07; prior Quantitative Developer Intern, Singapore, 2025-05 to 2025-08), and it is index-derived only - it comes from the LinkedIn/people-index records rather than an independently readable primary source (the LinkedIn profile is not publicly scrapeable, and no DRW careers/team page, news item, or other primary document naming this person was found). Employer classification: DRW Holdings is a genuine principal trading / market-making firm, so the employer is correctly a quantitative-finance firm. But CONFIRMED is not met because the role evidence rests solely on index data and the identity, while well-supported for the Olympiad/education records, is not corroborated for the DRW role by any second source. Student competitions, camps, and scholarships are excluded.Sep 2026
• Identity cross-check: the IOI statistics profile (Hua Zhi Vee, Malaysia), IMO results (Vee Hua Zhi, Malaysia) and LinkedIn (Hua Zhi Vee, veehz) all describe the same Malaysian competitive-programming identity; the shared 'veehz' handle links LinkedIn, GitHub and the mo-checklist site. Name-order variants 'Hua Zhi Vee' and 'Vee Hua Zhi' are the same person.Sep 2026
• DRW role: Quantitative Developer (Singapore, from 2026) and prior Quantitative Developer Intern (Singapore, 2025). Index-only (LinkedIn index, last active 2026-08-08); not confirmed from an independent primary source.Jul 2026
• IOI record: represented Malaysia at IOI 2023 (Silver, 238.5 pts), IOI 2022 (Bronze, 250.20 pts) and IOI 2021 (Bronze, 248 pts); returned to IOI 2024 as Malaysia's Deputy Leader. Primary source: IOI official statistics profile.Sep 2023
• Education: Bachelor of Computing (Honours) in Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 2023-2026. Index-only (LinkedIn index); NUS credential records and a 2026 graduation-conferring timeline are consistent.Sep 2026
• The only publicly surfaced employment for this person is DRW (intern then full-time Quantitative Developer); no other quantitative-finance employer, internship, or insight programme appears in web, IOI/IMO, GitHub or credential sources searched.Sep 2026
• IMO 2020: represented Malaysia and received an Honourable Mention (11 points, rank 371). Primary source: IMO official participant results.Sep 2020
• Employment classification: DRW is a principal trading / market-making firm; its own engineering careers listing for a 'Quantitative Developer Intern (Python)' confirms internal quantitative-developer roles, so a Quantitative Developer title there is a genuine quantitative-finance role (not a name-based inference).Sep 2026
• NUS School of Computing awarded a Certificate of Distinction in the Parallel Computing Focus Area (meritorious performance in Parallel Computing, Parallel and Concurrent Programming, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms) - a specialisation signal for low-latency/systems work relevant to trading systems.Jan 2026
• Notable GitHub projects: 'mo-checklist' (Math Olympiad preparation checklist, published as a GitHub Pages site at veehz.github.io/mo-checklist) and 'ioi-nix-setup' - competitive-programming tooling, consistent with the Olympiad background.Sep 2026
• IOI official profile links a Codeforces handle 'MGod', corroborating the competitive-programming identity.Sep 2023
• GitHub 'veehz' (u/22658781), 21 followers, 10 following; profile bio 'If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.' Verified as the same person via the veehz handle shared with their LinkedIn/mo-checklist site.Sep 2026