Silap Aliyev

Software engineer and IOI 2015 bronze medalist representing Turkmenistan; Software Engineer at Flipster, a crypto-currency derivatives exchange (2021-present per LinkedIn index). KAIST BSc in Computer Science with a double major in Electrical Engineering; earlier internships at a robotics startup, a real-estate tokenization exchange startup, and an undisclosed medium-sized quantitative trading firm (high-frequency-trading tooling).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. He held a Software Engineer / internship role at a firm he and LinkedIn describe as a quantitative trading firm (2019-2020, Singapore), working on micro-optimizing a C++ library of mathematical functions for high-frequency trading (~40% speedup). The subject's own personal site (oaakx.space), cross-linked from his IOI profile and GitHub, states he did 'internships ... at a medium-sized quantitative trading firm' doing 'micro-optimizing financial indicator libraries for high-frequency trading'. Employer classification: the employer name is undisclosed/redacted on LinkedIn; the personal site's self-description classifies it as a quantitative trading firm, so the quant classification rests on the subject's own description plus the LinkedIn index label, not independent primary-source confirmation of the employer entity. GitHub shows membership in the @prestolabs org, and Presto Labs self-describes as a quantitative trading firm, but that org link is circumstantial and does NOT by itself establish Presto Labs as the employer of the 2019-2020 role. Distinguishing this from non-work activity: this is an actual paid/work internship, not a competition, camp, or insight day.Jan 1, 2024
• Personal site states he is a software engineer at Flipster working on building a financial exchange for crypto-currency trading; Flipster is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange.Jan 1, 2026
• Represented Turkmenistan at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2013, 2014 and 2015; won a bronze medal at IOI 2015 (190/600, rank 157 of 322).Aug 2, 2015
• Graduated from KAIST with a BSc in Computer Science with a double major in Electrical Engineering.Jan 1, 2021
• His IOI profile publishes contact/handle links: email [contact omitted], Twitter @oaakx, Codeforces accidentallygivenfuck, TopCoder sylap, Facebook oaakx, homepage oaakx.space.Aug 2, 2015
• GitHub (s9v) bio reads 'Building the next great thing in Rust...', lists South Korea, links oaakx.space, and shows membership in the @prestolabs GitHub organization.Jan 1, 2026
• LinkedIn-enrichment index (not primary-source confirmation) lists earlier roles: Software Engineer at an '[Undisclosed Stealth Startup]' 2020-2021 (core matching engine of a financial exchange for tokenized real-estate, ~30,000 req/sec), and Computer Vision Engineer at Crazing Lab Robotics 2018-2019 (Seoul).Jan 1, 2026
• Presto Labs self-describes as 'a quantitative trading firm established in 2014' building automated trading systems; used only as employer-classification context, since the org link to his GitHub does not confirm it as his 2019-2020 employer.Sep 1, 2026
• Maintains a personal blog (oaakx.space/blog) plus a '/garage' page; GitHub links the site.Jan 1, 2026
• Personal site lists personal interests: walking (10,000 daily steps), playing and building strategies in Counter-Strike 2, and reading; sets a 2026 goal of 11 fiction books.Jan 1, 2026