Thanadol Chomphoochan

Thanadol (Pleng) Chomphoochan is a Thai software engineer and MIT graduate working as a Quantitative Research Engineer on Citadel's Global Quantitative Strategies team in New York. He earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (2024) and an M.Eng. in EECS (2025) from MIT, both with a 5.0/5.0 GPA, and completed an M.Eng. thesis on hardware-accelerated transaction scheduling under Adam Chlipala. He competed for Thailand at the International Olympiad in Informatics, winning a bronze medal in 2018. His internships span quantitative trading (Jump Trading, DRW) and software (Instabase, Frictionless Systems), and he writes a personal technical blog at tcpc.me.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Actual paid roles/internships at quantitative trading firms, supported by his own resume (tcpc.me/resume) and about page: Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies as Quantitative Research Engineer (Jul 2025-now, New York) - Citadel is a major quant hedge fund (its GQS arm is its quantitative strategies business); Jump Trading 'Jump Core Strategies' Software Engineer Intern (Jun-Aug 2024, Chicago) - Jump Trading is a proprietary high-frequency trading firm; DRW Holdings Software Developer Intern (Jun-Aug 2022, Chicago) - DRW is a proprietary trading firm. Identity is supported by the resume/about page cross-linking LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/tcpc), GitHub (tchomphoochan), and the IOI 2018 Thailand record. Instabase (2023) and Frictionless Systems (2021) are software/health-tech firms, not quantitative finance. The caller lead's title 'Quantitative Developer' differs from his resume's 'Quantitative Research Engineer'.Jul 1, 2025
• His resume lists Citadel GQS as Quantitative Research Engineer from Jul 2025 to 'now', but this is a self-published document; no independent primary-source (e.g. a Citadel page) confirms the current role.Jul 1, 2025
• Earned an M.Eng. in EECS from MIT (May 2025) with a 5.0/5.0 GPA, on top of a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering (May 2024), also 5.0/5.0.May 1, 2025
• Won a bronze medal at IOI 2018 (89th, 265/600) representing Thailand, per the official IOI statistics site.Sep 8, 2018
• His M.Eng. thesis, 'Evaluating the Feasibility of Transaction Scheduling via Hardware Accelerators' (MIT EECS, May 2025, supervisor Adam Chlipala), redesigns the Puppetmaster hardware transaction scheduler with a Bluespec FPGA implementation.May 16, 2025
• Received the Frederick C. Hennie III Teaching Award (May 2025) for outstanding contribution to departmental teaching, and the Northern Telecom/BNR Project Award for best student project in Digital Systems Laboratory (6.111), per his resume.May 1, 2025
• Served as an undergraduate and graduate research assistant in MIT CSAIL's Programming Languages and Verification Group (Jan 2023-May 2025), and as a teaching assistant for C/assembly programming, computer architecture, and compilers (Sep 2021-May 2025).May 1, 2025
• Publishes a personal email [contact omitted] and phone (857) 928-8736 on his resume/about page, and an older [contact omitted] on his IOI contestant record.May 1, 2025
• Won a silver medal at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad 2018 and a gold medal at the Thailand Olympiad in Informatics 2017, per his resume.May 1, 2018
• Writes a personal blog at tcpc.me ('aqua-ified thoughts') with technical posts including 'All about FIFOs' (Oct 2025), 'Design if-elses with priority' (Oct 2025), a derivation of the Y combinator (Dec 2021), and an SICP review (Apr 2023).Oct 22, 2025
• Publicly lists his regular online handles as tcpc, t.chomphoochan, tchomphoochan, slimetutor, slimetutor_, aslimetutor, and aquablitz11.Jan 1, 2025
• The MIT credential page shows a verified Bitcoin-anchored certificate (MerkleProof2017) issued 30 May 2024 for his Bachelor of Science.May 30, 2024