MSMarian Soltan
London Area, United Kingdom · engineerMarian Soltan is a Moldovan competitive programmer and full-stack software engineer. He represented Moldova at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2024 (Honorable Mention) and 2022, won bronze medals at the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics in 2023 and 2022, and won the Moldovan National Olympiad in Informatics in 2023 and 2022. He studies Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest (2024-2027) and works as a full-stack developer at Arnia Software in Bucharest. Indexed LinkedIn data also lists a software engineering role/internship at Citadel Securities (London) and participation in Jane Street's First-Year Trading & Technology Program (2025).
- Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only role evidence is index-only and internally conflicting: indexed LinkedIn data lists a current 'Software Engineer' role at Citadel Securities (London) from 2026, while the same index's headline reads 'Software Engineer Intern @ Citadel Securities'. Jane Street FTTP (London, 2025) is a first-year student program, which the brief excludes from qualifying. No primary source (company page, press, personal site) confirms an actual role or internship at either firm; employer classification of Jane Street and Citadel Securities as quantitative trading/market-making firms is supported by their own websites, but the individual role is not confirmed.Sep 2026
- Identity is corroborated across independent primary sources, not only the index: the official IOI statistics page lists 'Marian Soltan' representing Moldova in 2024 with Codeforces handle _Vanilla_; the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame corresponds; Moldovan government and press outlets report the IOI 2024 team medals.Sep 2024
- IOI 2024 detailed scores: Nile 82, Message 0, Tree 10, Hieroglyphs 3, Mosaic 78, Sphinx 26.5 (total 199.50), earning an Honorable Mention.Sep 2024
- Competitive programming record spans IOI 2022 (participant) and IOI 2024 (Honorable Mention), with two Balkan Olympiad in Informatics bronze medals (2022, 2023) and two Moldovan national informatics titles (2022, 2023), a six-year competitive programming background.Sep 2024
- Studying Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest (2024-2027), having attended Liceul Teoretic Republican 'Aristotel' in Moldova.Sep 2024
- Full Stack Developer at Arnia Software (Bucharest, 2024-2026) building an AI-plus-chess product that digitizes handwritten chess games; an engineering role separate from trading/finance.Jan 2024
- Indexed profile self-describes as a 'full-stack developer' with six years of competitive programming, and lists Index-only career fields (Citadel Securities 2026-, Jane Street FTTP 2025).Sep 2026
- Freelance Web Developer on Upwork (2020-2023) with international clients, and earlier Fiverr web development; his technical track record predates university and predates his olympiad medals.Jan 2020
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Competition record
Moldova · IOI