Nurzhan Bakibayev

Nurzhan Bakibayev is a software engineer based in London, England. He studied Information Systems at Kazakh-British Technical University and earned an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked in the database group, co-authored VLDB papers on factorised databases, and completed a doctoral thesis on structure-aware machine learning over multi-relational databases. His industry career includes software engineering roles at Google (2011-2012, 2014-2017) and Facebook (2017-2025) and, from 2025, Jane Street.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn profile linkedin.com/in/hypuk (self-reported) lists a current role as Software Engineer at Jane Street, London, holding since 2025; his prior roles are Software Engineer at Facebook (2017-2025) and Google (2011-2012, 2014-2017). Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm/proprietary market maker, so this is an actual quantitative-finance role, not a student program. Identity is supported by the cross-linked 'hypuk' handle (TopCoder/Facebook/IOI). Caveat: this employment evidence derives from person enrichment of the LinkedIn profile and no Jane Street-owned page independently naming him was found, so it is not independent primary-source confirmation.
• Identity resolved: the 'hypuk' handle ties together the LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/hypuk), X account @Hypuk, TopCoder member 'Hypuk', and Facebook account facebook.com/hypuk, all belonging to Nurzhan Bakibayev, Kazakhstan's IOI competitor.
• IOI statistics page lists his public contact email as [contact omitted] and links his TopCoder and Facebook profiles.
• Competitive-programming record: IOI 2001 bronze medalist for Kazakhstan; also an IOI 2000 and IOI 2002 finalist, and an ICPC World Finals 2006 participant (rank 63).
• Academic output at Oxford: co-authored 'Aggregation and Ordering in Factorised Databases' (VLDB 2013, with Tomas Kocisky, Dan Olteanu, Jakub Zavodny) and 'Demonstration of the FDB Query Engine for Factorised Databases' (PVLDB 2012) in the Oxford database group.
• Completed a doctoral thesis at Oxford, 'Structure-aware machine learning over multi-relational databases' (Oxford Research Archive, 2019), on in-database machine learning over multi-relational data.
• X/Twitter account @Hypuk (56 followers) returned no recent top-level posts, indicating a dormant public posting presence despite the handle being listed as his contact.