Ka-Shu Wong

Ka-Shu Wong is an Australian software engineer and UNSW computer-science PhD. He represented Australia at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 1999, winning a bronze medal as a Year 12 student at James Ruse Agricultural High School. He studied at UNSW (BE/BSc in Software Engineering and Mathematics, graduating 2005 with the University Medal; PhD in Computer Science, 2009). His engineering career has centred on low-latency and trading technology: Senior Software Engineer at Open Kernel Labs (2008-2011, from an AFR report), Software Engineer at the high-frequency trading firm Zomojo (2011-2014), Software Engineer at the low-latency networking vendor Exablaze (2014-2020), Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco after its acquisition of Exablaze (2020-2023), and Software Engineer at the quantitative trading firm Jump Trading LLC (2023-present). The role dates and the Jump Trading role are drawn from a LinkedIn index record and are not yet corroborated by an independent primary employment source.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. Identity is supported (IOI 1999 Australia + UNSW PhD + Exablaze email lineage all point to the same person). For quant-finance employment: Zomojo is confirmed an HFT firm and Exablaze confirmed a low-latency-networking vendor serving HFT/financial trading, both tied to him by the LinkedIn index plus independent corroboration (Keybase, Wireshark commits). Jump Trading is a genuine quantitative trading firm, but the 2023-present Software Engineer role rests only on the LinkedIn index, not an independent primary source. Because the purely-quantitative employer roles (Jump, Zomojo) rest mainly on index/social data rather than a primary employment source, the claim is retained as UNRESOLVED.2026
• Index-only LinkedIn record (ka-shu-wong-87a0994) lists Ka-Shu Wong as Software Engineer at Jump Trading LLC from 2023, Greater Sydney Area, 343 connections; this is aggregator/social-index data, not independent primary-source confirmation of the role.2026
• Career timeline from the index record (dates index-derived and not independently confirmed): Open Kernel Labs Senior Software Engineer 2008-2011; Zomojo Software Engineer 2011-2014; Exablaze Software Engineer 2014-2020; Cisco Engineering Technical Leader 2020-2023; Jump Trading LLC Software Engineer 2023-.2026
• Zomojo (2011-2014) was an Australian high-frequency trading firm (its listed sector was Financial Services; court records describe it as specialising in HFT, primarily on the Korean Stock Exchange) - so this index-listed role is a genuine quant-finance engineering role, not merely low-latency hardware.Feb 12, 2013
• The Australian Informatics Olympiad alumni record states that after IOI 1999 Ka-Shu Wong commenced a Science degree at UNSW in 2000, graduated in 2005 winning the University Medal, and then enrolled in a Computer Science PhD at UNSW, which he completed in 2009.2012
• Represented Australia at IOI 1999 (Antalya, Turkey) as a Year 12 student at James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW, winning Bronze with 188/600, rank 96 of 253; teammates were David Cooper, Nigel Dahlenburg and Peter Hawkins, with Dr Robbie Gates as team leader.Oct 16, 1999
• Exablaze (2014-2020) was a Sydney-founded low-latency networking hardware company whose gear was explicitly positioned for high-frequency trading and financial trading; Cisco acquired it (announced Dec 2019, closing in Cisco FY2020 Q3), after which Wong's index entry shows an Engineering Technical Leader role at Cisco 2020-2023.Dec 17, 2019
• After completing his PhD, Wong joined UNSW spin-out Open Kernel Labs, which supplies embedded software for mobile phones, per a Sept 2009 AFR report - corroborating the index's Open Kernel Labs entry against a primary press source.Sep 28, 2009
• PhD thesis work 'Forgetting in logic programs' (UNSW, 2009) and peer-reviewed publications on knowledge representation: JAIR 2008 'Sound and Complete Inference Rules for SE-Consequence' and van der Meyden & Wong 'Complete Axiomatizations for Reasoning about Knowledge and Branching Time' (Studia Logica, 2003).2008
• Authored the Exablaze timestamping dissector committed to Wireshark (AUTHORS file lists 'Ka-Shu Wong <kswong[AT]exablaze.com>'), a public open-source contribution made during his Exablaze tenure.Jun 2018
• Competed for University of New South Wales in the 2000 ACM ICPC South Pacific region (team with Harvey Tuch and John Lai, listed as Australian Champions).2000
• Keybase account 'kswong' identifies Ka-Shu Wong as working at Exablaze in Sydney, an independent corroboration (outside LinkedIn) of both the employer and location.