Mykhailo Babenko

Mykhailo Babenko is a Ukrainian software engineer and competitive programmer. He won a bronze medal at IOI 2014 representing Ukraine and competed in the ICPC World Finals 2019 with the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute team. He studied Applied Mathematics (BSc, 2014-2018) and Computer Science (MSc, 2018-2020) at National Technical University 'Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute' and Machine Learning and Big Data at Yandex School of Data Analysis (2015-2017). LinkedIn enrichment (index data) lists his career as Junior iOS Developer at Coderivium (2015), Software Engineer at Snap Inc. (2017-2020), Software engineer and Garden Leave at Jump Trading (2020-2022), Senior Production Engineer at Wayve (2023), and Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading (London) from 2024. The current HRT role is an index-derived claim and not independently primary-source confirmed.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The profile carries two actual employment roles at recognized quantitative trading firms - Software engineer at Jump Trading LLC (London, 2020-2022, plus a 2022 garden-leave period) and Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading (London, from 2024). Both employers are established quantitative/market-making trading firms (hudson-trading.com, jumptrading.com), so the roles are quant-finance employment, not student programs, competitions, insight days, or offers. Identity is supported by the consistent competitive-programming record (IOI 2014 Ukraine bronze, ICPC World Finals 2019 with Kharkiv Polytechnic, Codeforces handle NegaTeeF) and matching Kharkiv Polytechnic education in the same profile. Caveat: the specific role/date records are drawn from LinkedIn enrichment (index/aggregator data), which is not independent primary-source confirmation, and no public page independently documents these roles; the current HRT role in particular is an index claim that may be stale.2026
• Employer classification: Hudson River Trading (hudson-trading.com) is a quantitative/market-making trading firm; Jump Trading (jumptrading.com) is a proprietary quantitative trading firm. Both roles (HRT Algo Engineer, Jump Trading software engineer) are therefore quantitative-finance roles, though the role records come from LinkedIn enrichment index data rather than a directly read primary page.2026
• Won a bronze medal at IOI 2014 representing Ukraine, absolute rank 105 (CPHOF records the IOI 2014 bronze; IOI stats page lists him as a contestant for Ukraine in 2014).2014
• Profile backbone (LinkedIn enrichment / index data, not primary-source confirmed): Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading (London) since 2024; Senior Production Engineer at Wayve (2023); Garden Leave and then Software engineer at Jump Trading LLC (2020-2022); Software Engineer at Snap Inc., Odessa Region (2017-2020); Junior iOS Developer at Coderivium GmbH (2015).2026
• Competed in the ICPC World Finals 2019 (rank 71) as part of the National Technical University 'Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute' team, per the CPHOF timeline.2019
• Competitive-programming identity: Mykhailo Babenko, Ukraine, Codeforces/Topcoder handle NegaTeeF (also spelled NegaTeef); the IOI statistics page and the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame profile both link his name, country Ukraine, and this handle.2014
• Career-ordering note: the enrichment lists Garden Leave at Jump Trading before a 2022 exit (software engineer 2020-2022, garden leave 2022, then Wayve in 2023, then HRT from 2024) - a mid/post-2022 jump from a proprietary trading firm to an autonomous-driving company (Wayve) and back to a trading firm in 2024.2024
• Education: Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics, National Technical University 'Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute' (2014-2018), Master's in Computer Science at the same university (2018-2020), and Yandex School of Data Analysis (Machine Learning and Big Data, 2015-2017) per LinkedIn enrichment data.2020
• Snap Inc. tenure (2017-2020, Odessa Region, Ukraine) coincided with the final years of his Bachelor's and start of his Master's; it is his longest single listed role before Jump Trading.2020
• Career start: Junior iOS Developer at Coderivium GmbH in 2015, overlapping his undergraduate years at Kharkiv Polytechnic - his earliest listed professional role.2015
• A GitHub account 'negateef' (profile name 'Misha Babenko') was surfaced by search, but its ownership by this person was NOT independently verified; it is recorded only as an unverified lead and no github_url is asserted.2026
• CPHOF timeline also lists Google Hash Code in 2020 (rank 35) and 2019; these are team contests, not employment.2020