Mihai-Emilian Scortaru

Romanian software engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland, currently a software engineer at Google (2017-present; profile description reads 'Senior Software Engineer'). Prior roles: mobile software engineer at Intel and Kno (2013-2016), financial software developer at Tora Trading Services, a capital-markets OEMS vendor serving hedge funds and asset managers (2005-2013), and mobile communications developer at ubinam on demand (2003-2005). IOI 1998 silver medalist for Romania. LinkedIn enrichment (index-only) lists 358 connections, 362 followers, and industry 'Financial Services'.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The subject held a paid software-engineering role at Tora Trading Services from 2005 to 2013 as a Software Engineer / Financial Software Developer (LinkedIn career history, index-only). Tora Trading Services (TORA) is a capital-markets trading-technology firm: it builds the TORA multi-asset Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) sold to hedge funds and asset managers (LSEG product page: 'multi-asset OEMS for hedge funds and asset managers'), and Markets Media reported Tora courting U.S. hedge funds. Employer classification: Tora is a trading-software vendor serving hedge funds/asset managers, not itself a hedge fund, market-maker, or proprietary quant fund; the role was software engineering, not quantitative research or strategy. Identity is supported by the IOI 1998 record (name, Romania) and the LinkedIn-listed education (Liceul de Informatica Tiberiu Popoviciu, TU Cluj-Napoca). No other quant-finance role/internship was found; the balance of the career is mobile software (ubinam, Kno/Intel) and Google Zurich. CONFIRMED per the criterion of an actual role plus supported identity, with the employer-type caveat above.
• Career timeline (LinkedIn via index enrichment, index-only): Google, Zurich - Software Engineer (description 'Senior Software Engineer'), 2017-present; Intel Corporation (Cluj) mobile software engineer 2013-2016; Kno, Inc. (acquired by Intel) 2013; Tora Trading Services software engineer (financial software developer) 2005-2013; ubinam on demand GmbH mobile communications developer 2003-2005. Consistent single-employer-per-phase progression from Cluj to Zurich.
• Tora Trading Services (TORA) builds a multi-asset Order/Execution Management System for hedge funds and asset managers and was later part of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) - confirming the 2005-2013 employer is a capital-markets trading-technology vendor, not a hedge fund itself. The 'Financial Software Developer' framing matches a product-engineering role on trading systems.
• Won a silver medal for Romania at the 1998 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), scoring 530 (75.71%), absolute rank 46 of 241. This is the 'IOI 1998' identity anchor tying the competitive-programming record to the name.1998
• Markets Media reported TORA targeting U.S. hedge-fund clients ('Tora Trading Courts U.S. Hedge Funds'), corroborating that Tora's customer base is hedge funds and asset managers - the basis for treating the Tora role as capital-markets/trading-domain rather than generic software.
• Education (LinkedIn via index, index-only): Master's degree, Computer Science, Universitatea Tehnica din Cluj-Napoca 2003-2004; Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, same university 1998-2003; secondary education at Liceul de Informatica 'Tiberiu Popoviciu' 1994-1998. The IOI 1998 result falls in the final high-school year at the Tiberiu Popoviciu informatics lyceum.
• Declared skills (index-only) cluster on trading/finance infrastructure alongside core engineering: 'Trading Systems', 'Financial Markets', 'Algorithms', 'Distributed Systems', 'Java', 'C++', 'C#', 'Spring'. Trading-domain keywords are consistent with the Tora tenure rather than a later quant role.
• Kno, Inc. appears in the career history as acquired by Intel; Kno (a digital-textbook company) was bought by Intel in 2013, matching the same-year Kno-then-Intel entries - the 2013 transition is an acquisition roll-up, not a separate job search.
• Early employer ubinam on demand GmbH (2003-2005) is a German telematics/vehicle-tracking company (now ubinam track&act GmbH), so the first role after university was mobile/telematics software - confirming the pre-Tora phase was not finance-related.
• LinkedIn lists a personal website coins.ro. coins.ro now resolves to a Romanian crypto-investor portal ('Portalul Investitorilor Crypto din Romania'); direct fetch failed and ownership by the subject is unverified, so the link is recorded as listed but the site's content is not attributed to him.
• Languages listed on LinkedIn (index-only): English, French, Italian - relevant because the Zurich-based Google role and earlier German/Cluj roles span multiple countries.
• A Romanian 'Mihai Scortaru' is credited as author of informatics textbooks (e.g. 'Informatica pentru grupele de performanta, clasa a XII-a') and computing titles listed on biblios.ro. This may be a namesake (plausibly an informatics teacher); authorship is NOT attributed to the subject without confirmation.