Salome Vakhtangadze

Salome Vakhtangadze is a software engineer from Tbilisi, Georgia, and a two-time International Mathematical Olympiad contestant for Georgia (2002, 2003), earning an honourable mention in 2003. Per LinkedIn-index and aggregator records she holds an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University (2009-2011) and has worked as a software engineer at Google (2011-2016, including the Google Ideas team that built uProxy), Blockchain (2017-2019), Citadel (Senior Software Engineer, 2020-2021) and OpenSea (2021-). Aggregator directories also list her as a Software Engineer at Aquatic Capital Management, a Chicago systematic quantitative investment firm; the current employer is not settled by independent sources. Role and education details beyond the IMO record and public open-source/press appearances are index- or aggregator-derived, not primary-source confirmed.

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• Represented Georgia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in both 2002 and 2003, earning an honourable mention in 2003 (score 8; 292nd overall, 36.3%); IMO official results also record a 2002 participation (281, 10 pts).
• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. No primary-source confirmation of the Citadel or Aquatic Capital Management roles was found; only LinkedIn-index enrichment, ZoomInfo and other aggregator directories list them. Citadel is a major hedge fund/market maker and Aquatic Capital Management is a Chicago systematic quantitative investment firm (both independently confirmed as quant firms), but the subject's actual roles there are index/aggregator-only and the current employer is conflicting (OpenSea vs Aquatic). Identity itself is well supported (IMO 2002/2003 for Georgia, NYU, Google Ideas/uProxy, GitHub salomegeo). CONFIRMED would require a primary or independent source for an actual role; student programs do not qualify.Sep 17, 2026
• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. Identity is well supported - IMO official records list Salome Vakhtangadze for Georgia in 2002 and 2003 (honourable mention 2003); a 2015 opensource.com interview places her as a Google Ideas software engineer on uProxy; GitHub commits under 'salomegeo' match. Candidate quant employers are real firms: Citadel is a major hedge fund and market maker, and Aquatic Capital Management is an SEC-registered (CRD# 307291) Chicago systematic quantitative investment firm. But her actual roles there appear only in index and aggregator databases: LinkedIn-index enrichment lists Citadel (Senior Software Engineer, 2020-2021); ContactOut lists Citadel (Feb 2020-Mar 2021) and Aquatic Capital Management (Software Engineer, Jun 2023-present); ZoomInfo/Datanyze/SignalHire list 'Aquatics'. These are not independent primary-source confirmation and conflict on the current employer (index/OpenSea vs aggregator/Aquatic), so a role at a quant firm cannot be CONFIRMED at the required bar.Sep 17, 2026
• Dated employment timeline per ContactOut: Blockchain (May 2017-Apr 2019), Citadel (Senior Software Engineer, Feb 2020-Mar 2021), OpenSea (Sep 2021-Oct 2022), Aquatic Capital Management (Software Engineer, Jun 2023-present); the index instead shows OpenSea extending to now, so the current-employer field is unstable across sources.Sep 4, 2024
• LinkedIn-index enrichment lists her work history as Software Engineer at Google (2011-2016), Software Engineer at Blockchain (2017-2019), Senior Software Engineer at Citadel (2020-2021) and Software Engineer at OpenSea (2021-) — index-derived, not primary-source confirmed.
• Aggregator directories (ZoomInfo, ContactOut, Datanyze, SignalHire) list her as Software Engineer at 'Aquatic'/'Aquatic Capital Management', a Chicago systematic quant fund, conflicting with the LinkedIn-index OpenSea listing; ContactOut (Sep 2024) shows [contact omitted].
• Interviewed by opensource.com (Sep 2015) as a Google Ideas engineer and co-contributor to uProxy, a browser extension for sharing an Internet connection with users in censored regions - a primary-source beat confirming her Google tenure and its human-rights focus.Sep 1, 2015
• Worked on Google Ideas / Jigsaw's uProxy project as a software engineer at Google, interviewed publicly by opensource.com about sharing internet connections; she joined Google Ideas after working on Google's Search Infrastructure team.
• GitHub account 'salomegeo' is hers: the repo salomegeo/google-demo carries commits authored by 'Salome Vakhtangadze' (a Google sign-in demo created ~2013), corroborating the GitHub handle alongside her Google tenure.
• Holds an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University (2009-2011) per LinkedIn-index enrichment.
• GitHub 'salomegeo' contributes to blockchain/blockchain-wallet-v4-frontend, matching her reported Blockchain.com tenure, and maintains a lightning-rfc fork - code evidence tying the handle to her crypto-infrastructure work.
• Taught at Free University (Tbilisi) while working remotely for Blockchain on scaling bitcoin transaction volume, per her Impact Hub Tbilisi member profile ('I teach at Free University').