Sorawit Suriyakarn

CTO and co-founder of Band Protocol, a blockchain/crypto data-oracle company. MIT graduate (BS Computer Science and Engineering; MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). Career spans software engineering at MemSQL, Dropbox, Quora, a developer role at Hudson River Trading, and co-founding Band Protocol.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a proprietary algorithmic/high-frequency trading firm, and Sorawit Suriyakarn's own LinkedIn profile (index-backed, consistent with sorawit.dev and other profiles) lists a 2017 role, Core Developer - Risk and Order Entry, with the description 'Built high-performance trading software with C++ to connect to various exchanges. Primarily focused on cryptocurrency exchanges and risk management stacks.' This was an actual software-engineer role at a quant trading firm, not a student program, insight day, or offer; identity is supported (same name, MIT, Band Protocol, IOI). No other quant-finance employer (bank, asset manager, energy/crypto trading firm) is evidenced beyond HRT. Evidence: LinkedIn profile https://linkedin.com/in/sorawit (index-only claim; not independent primary-source confirmation), corroborated by https://sorawit.dev/ which lists the same MIT/Band Protocol/IOI identity.
• Hudson River Trading is a proprietary trading firm that describes itself as a 'lean, technical engineering organization' whose 'open source software is foundational to HRT's research and trading infrastructure,' confirming it operates in algorithmic/high-frequency trading rather than generic software.
• Co-founded Band Protocol in 2017 with CEO Soravis Srinawakoon and CPO Paul Chonpimai; founded around the 2017 ICO era. Band Protocol raised venture funding and is listed across Binance Research and CryptoRank.
• Band Protocol is a blockchain/crypto data-oracle company (its own whitepaper, bandprotocol.com, and crypto-market profiles) - a crypto software/infrastructure firm, not a quantitative investment, market-making, or hedge-fund business. Describing Band Protocol as quant-finance employment would be incorrect.
• IOI 2011 (Thailand) gold medal, ranked 24th worldwide - the Olympiad identity anchor confirming the same individual (Sorawit Suriyakarn, Thailand, IOI 2011).
• MIT education: SB in Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3) and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6-P); his personal site states 'MIT '17 - SB & MEng in EECS (Course 6)'.
• LinkedIn/other profiles list earlier software engineering roles: MemSQL (database engine, 2014), Dropbox (Android, 2015), Quora (infrastructure, 2016), and MIT teaching/lab assistantships 2013-2016 (courses 6.172, 6.005, 6.042, 6.01). These are index-only claims from his LinkedIn profile, not independently primary-sourced here.
• Authors Band Protocol technical/governance posts on Medium (744 followers), including the BCIP-4 and BCIP-5 IBC oracle and IBC transfer proposals in October 2021 - public technical writing tied to his CTO role.
• In September 2020 a widely reported claim linked the pseudonymous SushiSwap lead developer 'Chef Nomi' to Band Protocol's CTO; Sorawit Suriyakarn publicly denied being Nomi. Reported by CryptoPotato and CryptoNews; treat as an unverified rumor he denied, not an established fact.
• Personal site sorawit.dev lists an active side project, ofc-fantasy-solver (https://ofc.sorawit.dev, github.com/sorawit/ofc-fantasy-solver), an in-browser solver computing all Pareto-dominant arrangements for Open-Face Chinese poker fantasy-land hands - evidence of continued hobby software work and poker interest.
• Recreational poker player with a Hendon Mob tournament record (player id 1143601), consistent with the poker-themed projects on his personal site; separate from his professional work.