Nipun Pitimanaaree

Thai IMO medalist (multiple golds, 2009-2013) and MIT EECS graduate. Co-founded the crypto/DeFi projects Alpha Finance Lab (introduced leveraged yield farming via Alpha Homora), Beta Finance, and INFINIT, where he is Co-Founder and CTO. No employment at a quantitative investment, trading, or hedge-fund firm has been substantiated.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. Employment record consists of founder roles at crypto/DeFi startups - Alpha Finance Lab (2020-08 to present), Beta Finance, and INFINIT - none of which is a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, or hedge-fund firm; no quantitative finance role or internship at a bank, asset manager, energy/crypto trading desk, or systematic fund appears in any source checked.
• Co-founded Alpha Finance Lab in Aug 2020 and introduced leveraged yield farming via the Alpha Homora product; the venture is a DeFi lending/leveraged-farming protocol, not a quantitative trading business.Aug 2020
• IMO record: gold medals in 2011 (rank 6, 35 pts), 2012 (rank 17, 33 pts) and 2013 (rank 34, 31 pts) for Thailand, plus earlier participation; profile self-describes 4 gold and 1 silver medals total.
• Listed as Co-Founder and CTO of INFINIT, a DeFi abstraction layer for launching protocols; INIT Capital was launched on it as a proof of concept.
• MIT EECS SuperUROP scholar in the 2017-2018 cohort (Hewlett Foundation Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar); research topic 'NVL Coq Spark SQL Formalization and Optimization' under supervisor Adam Chlipala, in the Programming Languages and Software Engineering area.2017
• Co-founded Beta Finance, a DeFi money-market/lending protocol; like his other ventures it is crypto infrastructure rather than a quantitative investment or trading firm.
• Speaker at Devcon SEA (Nov 2024) giving a lightning talk titled 'Deep Dive the LP Pricing' in the Cryptoeconomics track.Nov 2024
• Public MIT email [contact omitted] published on the SuperUROP scholar page, alongside a profile photo reused as the profile image.
• Public handles n1punp on both X (x.com/n1punp) and GitHub (github.com/n1punp), both self-linked from his Devcon speaker profile.
• Indexed as an investor on Crunchbase with portfolio companies; treated as index-only data, not independent primary-source confirmation of any role.