Kārlis Šusters

Kārlis Šusters is a Latvian computer scientist and FPGA engineer at Jane Street in London, where he has worked since 2024. He studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, completing a BA (2020-2023) and an MEng (2023-2024). Before his current role he worked as an FPGA intern at Jane Street (2023) and a core software engineering intern at Hudson River Trading (2022), and as a junior software engineer at ZZ Dats in Riga (2020). He represented Latvia at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2019 and 2020.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. An actual employment history is reported for this person: FPGA Engineer at Jane Street from Aug 2024, FPGA Intern at Jane Street (Jul-Sep 2023), and Core Software Engineering Intern at Hudson River Trading (Jul-Sep 2022). Identity is supported: the IOI statistics page independently confirms a Latvia contestant named Kārlis Šusters at IOI 2019 and IOI 2020, matching the LinkedIn name and the Cambridge/UK context, and theorg.com separately lists Karlis Susters as FPGA Engineer on Jane Street's FPGA Development team. Employer classification: Jane Street and Hudson River Trading are both quantitative trading/market-making firms, so the roles are quantitative-finance employment. Caveat retained: the individual role entries come from the client-provided LinkedIn index lead and the theorg.com aggregator, not from a Jane Street or HRT primary page read in this run; the roles are therefore index/secondary-source level, and no source fixes exact end dates beyond the internship month ranges. The roles are engineering roles (FPGA / software), not trading or strategy roles - the quant-finance connection is the employer's business, not the job function.Aug 2024
• IOI statistics profile (primary source) confirms Kārlis Šusters represented Latvia at IOI 2019 (111/327, 296.92 pts) and IOI 2020 (127/343, 290.02 pts), bronze medal both years; page also lists a Codeforces handle 'ksusters'.2020
• theorg.com lists Karlis Susters as an FPGA Engineer on Jane Street Capital's FPGA Development team, alongside Chris Pelosi and Anish Singhani - an aggregator-level (secondary) corroboration of the Jane Street FPGA Engineer role, not an independent primary-source confirmation.
• Education (index-sourced): University of Cambridge, BA Computer Science (2020-2023) and MEng Computer Science (2023-2024); earlier at RTU Engineering High School, Riga (2017-2020). The 2024 MEng completion is chronologically adjacent to the Aug 2024 Jane Street full-time start; no source states a link between the two.2024
• Pre-quant experience (index-sourced): Junior Software Engineer at ZZ Dats (Riga, Latvia, 2020), a Latvian software firm doing .NET/C# back-end and Oracle/Postgres work; and a 2021 summer internship at the University of Cambridge building a binary static-analysis / DynamoRIO loop-parallelization tool. Neither is a quant-finance employer.2021
• Contributions to the open-source Bluespec Toooba RISC-V core (a research processor project) are credited to 'Karlis Susters', including a prefetcher library and SimpleStride implementation - evidence of hardware/FPGA and computer-architecture work consistent with the FPGA engineer role; GitHub commit-level, name-only attribution.
• RTU Engineering High School (RTU EHS, Riga) newsletter documents that its graduate Kārlis Šusters won an IOI bronze medal for a second consecutive year - Latvian secondary-school background before Cambridge, consistent with the IOI record.2021
• Public university/social footprint (Facebook, name-match, not independently verified): 'Kārlis Šusters' lists studies in Computer Science at Christ's College, Cambridge and prior schooling at RTU inženierzinātņu vidusskola and Rīgas Juglas vidusskola; activity includes Cambridge University Ukrainian Society posts. Christ's College affiliation is additional education context but the account itself is not identity-proof.
• Current base appears to be the UK (LinkedIn location Cambridge; Jane Street role listed for the London area), consistent with his Cambridge studies and London-based employers.
• No GitHub profile, personal website, X/Twitter account, or published email was found in this run; the only code footprint is commit-level attribution in the Bluespec Toooba repository. No employer primary page (Jane Street or HRT) naming him was located.