TKTaimas Korganbayev
Taimas Korganbayev is a competitive programmer from Kazakhstan who competed for his country at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2022 (bronze medal) and 2023 (silver medal). He won a silver medal at the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (EJOI) 2020. He is an undergraduate at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), studying a BEng in Computer Science + AI (2023-2027), after attending the National School of Physics & Math (FIZMAT) in Kazakhstan (2021-2023). His listed experience includes research internships at the Huawei Hong Kong Research Center (2024-2025, NPU kernel development in C++) and a Software Engineer Intern role at Jump Trading; the Jump Trading role is recorded only in the structured index and has not been independently confirmed (see notes).
- Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. A Software Engineer Intern role at Jump Trading (a proprietary trading firm that operates quantitative/systems trading) starting May 2026 and located in Singapore/Hong Kong is recorded only in the structured people index derived from their LinkedIn profile; the same index-derived career timeline cannot be independently confirmed from a primary-source page read in this run, so the employment is retained as uncertain and separately labeled as index-only.May 2026
- Won a silver medal representing Kazakhstan at IOI 2023 with 247/600 points (rank 70).2023
- Won a bronze medal representing Kazakhstan at IOI 2022 with 239/600 points (rank 100).2022
- Employer classification: Jump Trading is a proprietary/quantitative trading firm (market-making and high-frequency systems trading), so a software engineering internship there does fall within the quantitative-finance employer set; however classification of the company does not by itself confirm that the role exists for this person.
- Research intern at Huawei Hong Kong Research Center (2024-2025), developing, optimizing and testing kernels for NPUs in C++.2024
- ICPC 2023 Asia Hangzhou Regional Contest gold medalist, competing on HKUST team 2; also bronze at the ICPC 2023 Asia East Continent Final.2023
- Undergraduate at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, BEng in Computer Science + AI (2023-2027); previously attended the National School of Physics & Math (FIZMAT) in Kazakhstan (2021-2023).2023
- Won silver at EJOI 2020 representing Kazakhstan.2020
- Competes under the handle Tekor on Codeforces; listed on the competitive programming hall of fame (cphof.org) under codeforces:Tekor.
Developed, optimized and tested kernels for NPUs in C++
Developed, optimized and tested kernels for NPUs in C++
Competition record
Kazakhstan · IOI