Richard Daniel Ayebare

Mathematician, engineer and entrepreneur. IMO 2020 honourable mention for Uganda; studied Computer Science and Economics at MIT; index lists software engineering roles at dSideAI and a Jane Street InFocus fellowship.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only quantitative-finance institution in his record is Jane Street, and the single Jane Street item is the 2023 InFocus program, which Jane Street and third-party pages describe as a short student program/fellowship rather than an internship or full-time role; the index title 'Software Engineer (InFocus Fellowship)' labels it as an engineer role, so index labeling conflicts with the program's stated nature. Other listed employers are not quant-finance: dSideAI is an MIT-connected AI/ML shopping-search startup, Catalog (Catalog Technologies) is a DNA data-storage company, and Exim Bank (Tanzania) is a commercial bank where his listed title is Banking Officer, not a trading/quant role. No actual quant-finance role or internship is documented by a primary source, so CONFIRMED is not warranted and the record is insufficient to affirmatively rule it out.Sep 17, 2026
• Studied Computer Science and Economics at MIT 2021-2025 (BSc), serving as a Teaching Assistant for Data Structures and Algorithms and for Physics (Classical Mechanics); prior schooling at King's College Budo, Uganda (2014-2019).2025
• Represented Uganda at the 61st International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2020) and earned an honourable mention with 7 points (rank 445/616); this is his strongest independently verifiable achievement.Jul 2020
• Index (RocketReach/LinkedIn-derived) lists a June 2026-start Banking Officer role at Exim Bank (Tanzania) Limited, a commercial bank, after software engineering roles at dSideAI (2025) and previously Catalog; this is index-only and not confirmed by a primary source.Sep 17, 2026
• Personal site states he interned at both large companies and startups with a focus on computer systems and low-level software, and publishes his MIT email [contact omitted] and GitHub handle Ayebare-R.Sep 2026
• Participated in the Jane Street InFocus software engineering program in 2023 (index/label dating), a short student program run by the quantitative trading firm; a separate LinkedIn post by Georges Macheta shows a contemporary completed the Software Engineering INFOCUS Program at Jane Street NYC the same month (May 2023).May 2023
• LinkedIn index location is San Francisco Bay Area while his listed current employer is a Tanzanian bank, a geographic mismatch that suggests the index current-role entry may be stale or mislabeled.Sep 17, 2026
• 'Trading' and 'OCaml' both appear in his index skill list, consistent with exposure to trading-adjacent tooling, but no source documents an actual trading or quantitative role, so these skills should not be read as employment evidence.Sep 17, 2026