Roman Dzvinkovsky

Roman Dzvinkovsky (also rendered Raman Dzvinkouski) is a software engineer based in Warsaw, Poland. He represented Belarus at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2002, winning a bronze medal. He studied Computer Science at Belarusian State University (2006-2008) and worked as a senior software engineer at IPONWEB, Enfocus, Iron.io, BlueCrest Capital Management, Facebook and Smarkets.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. A supported identity (LinkedIn profile in Warsaw, matching Belarusian State University CS education, carrying the same BlueCrest and Smarkets employers as the IOI-2002 Belarus contestant) held an actual senior software engineer role at BlueCrest Capital Management in 2011 (remote), a London multi-strategy hedge fund, working on a system that reproduced results of an automated trading engine over historical data -- a genuine buy-side quant-finance employer. Smarkets (2018-2020) is a betting/prediction exchange (market-making and exchange infrastructure, classified as fintech/gambling-exchange technology, not a quant trading firm). No other listed role is a quant employer, and the 2011 BlueCrest role is a paid employment role, not a student program.2011
• LinkedIn (index/aggregator, not primary confirmation) employment timeline: IPONWEB (Minsk) 2006-2010 (Mooter ad server; eharmony fraud-detection data scientist); Enfocus (Minsk) 2010-2011; BlueCrest Capital Management (remote) 2011; Iron.io (remote) 2011-2016; Facebook (London) 2017-2018; Smarkets (London) 2018-2020; then a company shown only as 'Fintech' (remote) 2021-present, actual employer unresolved.2021
• BlueCrest Capital Management is a London-headquartered multi-strategy hedge fund; his 2011 Senior Software Engineer role there is a genuine buy-side quant-finance employer, and his description ('system for reproducing results of automated trading engine for historical data') places the work on an automated trading engine.2011
• Smarkets operates a sports-betting/prediction exchange with proprietary market-making; the role was a betting-exchange settlement-engine role ('built settler service that settles bets'), so it is exchange/fintech infrastructure rather than a systematic-trading or quant-fund desk.2018
• Represented Belarus at IOI 2002 (Yong-In, South Korea), bronze medal, rank 138/276, 115/600 points; the IOI stats page also lists a linked TopCoder handle 'RomanD'.Aug 25, 2002
• IOI 2002 medals table independently lists Dzvinkouski among Belarus medalists, corroborating the olympiad identity outside the stats.ioinformatics aggregator.Aug 25, 2002