Theodor-Pierre Moroianu

Romanian computer scientist and competitive programmer, currently a Quantitative Developer at Quadrature Capital in London. He earned a Master of Science in Cyber Security from ETH Zürich (valedictorian, summa cum laude, joint with EPFL) and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Bucharest (valedictorian, 10.0 GPA). As a student he interned at Quadrature Capital (2023), Jane Street (2022), Citadel (2021), Google Zurich (2020) and Bitdefender (2018). He won a silver medal at the IOI 2019 for Romania and a silver medal at the ICPC World Finals 2021.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Quadrature Capital (quadrature.ai) is a quantitative trading firm: its own site describes building 'automated trading systems' from 'deep quantitative research'. Moroianu held a Quantitative Developer Intern role there (Jul-Sep 2023) and a Quantitative Developer role (Jan 2025-present), both stated on his own CV at moroianu.work, and both are further listed on his LinkedIn. He also held software-engineering internships at Jane Street (quantitative trading firm / liquidity provider, per janestreet.com) and Citadel (multi-strategy hedge fund / Global Quantitative Strategies, per citadel.com). Identity is corroborated by the CV, LinkedIn, personal site moroianu.work, IOI statistics page, and Codeforces/CPHOF profiles all matching the same person.Jan 2025
• Current role since Jan 2025 is Quantitative Developer at Quadrature Capital, London, in the market data team; CV describes onboarding new venues and PBs of historical data and improving live/historical data pipelines.Jan 2025
• Career trajectory is a steady machine near the machine: software-engineering internships at Bitdefender (2018), Google (2020), Citadel (2021) and Jane Street (2022) each landed in performance- or reliability-critical back-end work (parsers, reconciliation, alerting, market-data pipelines), which is the profile that fits a market-data quant-dev seat at Quadrature, where he interned in 2023 and returned full-time in Jan 2025. All four internships and both Quadrature roles are on his own CV.Jan 2025
• Earned a Master of Science in Cyber Security at ETH Zürich (Sep 2022-Dec 2024), graduating as valedictorian of the Cyber Security department summa cum laude, with the Willi Studer Prize and the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme; joint degree with EPFL.Dec 2024
• Summer 2023 Quantitative Developer Intern at Quadrature Capital: improved Rust support of the internal market data pipeline and built a full-stack real-time orderbook explorer with Rust/WebAssembly/React.Jul 2023
• Summer 2022 Software Engineer Intern at Jane Street Capital, London, in the market metadata team: built a customizable log-based alerting system for the corporate-actions pipeline in OCaml.Jul 2022
• Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Bucharest (2019-2022), valedictorian of the CS department with a perfect 10.0/10.0 GPA.Jun 2022
• Summer 2021 Software Engineer Intern at Citadel LLC, London, in the post-trade engineering team: built a full-stack application showing breaks in automated post-trade reconciliation (TypeScript/React/GraphQL).Jun 2021
• Represented Romania at the IOI 2019 in Baku, Azerbaijan, winning a silver medal (stats.ioinformatics.org contestant page matches the name).Aug 2019
• Serves on the scientific and organization committee of MateInfoUB, a University of Bucharest admission contest, since June 2022; built the contest platform and authored tasks/tests/solutions in the github.com/MateInfo-UB repository.Jun 2022
• Won a silver medal (8th place) at the ICPC World Finals 2021 representing the University of Bucharest, and qualified as a finalist in 2021, 2023 and 2024 (Moscow, Luxor, Astana); one of few competitive programmers to reach three ICPC World Finals.Oct 2021
• Summer 2020 Software Engineer Intern at Google LLC, Zurich: implemented the OOXML parser for an internal malicious-document analysis tool in C++.Jul 2020