John Clyde
Seattle, Washington, United States · engineerOlympiad-identified as John Clyde of the United States, IMO 1997 (Silver medal). Duke University BS in Math and Computer Science (2001), where he was on the Putnam-winning team. Engineering career spanning Google, Facebook, Nanigans, Lyft and Mozart Data, with a short quantitative-finance stint as a Research Associate at FDO Partners.
- FDO Partners (Cambridge, MA) was a quantitative investment management firm founded 1997 that dissolved and returned capital in 2018; John Clyde's 2007-2008 Research Associate role there is a real quantitative-finance position per his own profile description referencing 'high frequency trading'. [company classification from the ClickHouse company index, fdopartners.com]
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED via the FDO Partners Research Associate (2007-2008) role, a genuine past position at a quantitative investment firm, on an odd, unsupported identity. Not confirmed: the D. E. Shaw 2001-2005 Fixed Income Trader/Programmer lead has no supporting evidence and contradicts his LinkedIn timeline.
- Duke senior John Clyde was a member of Duke's three-person Putnam team (with Nathan Curtis and Kevin Lacker) that won the 2001 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition against Caltech, Harvard and MIT.Mar 2001
- IMO 1997 (Mar del Plata, Argentina): John Clyde represented the United States, scoring 30 points and earning a Silver medal, ranked 60th (87.2 percentile).Jul 1997
- Career timeline (self-reported on LinkedIn, index-sourced): FDO Partners Research Associate 2007-2008 (Cambridge, MA); Central City Music Company Executive Producer 2005-2007; Google Software Engineer (Search Quality) 2010-2011; Facebook Seattle Senior SWE (ads optimization) 2011-2013; Nanigans Senior SWE Lead 2013-2016; Lyft SWE (Head of Automation / Developer Productivity) 2016-2017; VOLTN CTO 2017-2019; Mozart Data Principal Software Engineer 2020-2024; VentiMath Founder 2024-present.
- VentiMath (Seattle), a web platform for math-competition practice, coaching and club operations, is the company John Clyde founded in 2024; the choice of product ties his current venture directly to his Olympiad background, though no source states a motive.2024
- Christian Science Monitor (1997-07-07) named John Clyde one of the six highest scorers on the US team heading to the 1997 IMO, and reported he spent summers in Pocatello, Idaho (away from his parents in New Plymouth) living with a math professor.Jul 7, 1997
- Education: BS in Math and Computer Science, Duke University, 1997-2001; previously New Plymouth High School (Idaho), class of 1997. [index-sourced from his LinkedIn via people-enrichment]
- Duke Math News (Jan 1998) records John Clyde '01 placing second in the 19th Virginia Tech Regional Math Contest.Jan 30, 1998
- Duke Today (2001-05) listed John Clyde of New Plymouth, Idaho among five seniors honored at Duke.May 2001
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United States of America · IMO