Tsotne Tabidze

Tsotne Tabidze is a software engineer working at the intersection of low-latency systems and data infrastructure. Born/olympiad-recorded for Georgia, he competed for Georgia at the IMO (2008, 2009, 2010) and IOI (2009, 2010, 2011), winning a gold medal at IOI 2010 (rank 7) and earning two IMO bronze medals and an honourable mention. He earned a BS in Computer Science from MIT (2012-2016), interning at Dropbox, Facebook and Quora. At Quora (2016-2019) he co-designed MLServe, Quora's unified ML model-serving framework. He then spent 2019-2022 as a software engineer at Tecton, the feature-store / ML-infrastructure startup, before moving into quantitative finance: Software Engineer at Citadel (2022-2025) and, since 2025, Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading in New York. His career traces a steady path from large-scale ML serving and data infrastructure into trading-firm engineering.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Tsotne Tabidze (LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/tsotnet) held two actual professional software-engineer roles at quantitative trading firms, not student programs: Software Engineer at Citadel (2022-2025) and Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading (2025-present). Hudson River Trading is a quantitative/market-making trading firm (hudson-trading.com) and Citadel is a hedge fund and market maker (citadel.com); both are core quantitative-finance employers, so the roles are quant-finance software/algo roles rather than 'quant' in name only. Identity support: the LinkedIn profile carries the matching name and the IMO/IOI olympiad footprint aligns (Georgia-born, MIT CS), though employer roles rest on LinkedIn-indexed data and no independent primary employer page naming him was located.Aug 2025
• Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading since 2025 (New York), moving into a market-making firm's algorithm-development team after three years at Citadel - a continued track in low-latency trading systems rather than a move between unrelated software shops.Aug 2025
• Software Engineer at Citadel 2022-2025 (New York), a multi-strategy hedge fund and market maker - his first quantitative-finance employer after leaving data-infra startup Tecton.Aug 2022
• Won a gold medal at IOI 2010 (rank 7, score 710) representing Georgia - his strongest olympiad result; also ranked 78th at IOI 2011.Aug 21, 2010
• Software Engineer at Tecton 2019-2022 (San Francisco Bay Area), the feature-store / ML-infrastructure startup - a data-platform engineering role that precedes his trading-firm roles.2019
• Software Engineer at Quora 2016-2019; co-designed and implemented MLServe, Quora's unified ML model-serving framework, which reached full adoption in under a year across 50+ models - an early large-scale ML-serving system.2016
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, MIT, 2012-2016.2016
• Three-time IMO participant for Georgia: 2008 bronze (238th, 15 pts), 2009 honourable mention (335th, 10 pts), 2010 bronze (187th, 17 pts) - a consistent olympiad record alongside his IOI results.2010
• GitHub handle 'tsotnet'; listed as a maintainer of the Feast feature store (feast-dev) - ties his open-source footprint to the ML/data-infrastructure domain of his Tecton years.2019
• Software-engineering internships at Quora (2015, Livenode server-side rendering cache), Facebook (2014, Messenger group-messaging/Iris service), and Dropbox (2013, Android contacts invite) - a conventional big-tech internship sequence during his MIT undergraduate years.2015
• MIT SuperUROP Amazon Computer Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar, 2015-2016 cohort, supervised by Daniel N. Jackson; research on 'Model-driven development of scalable web apps'.2015
• Kaggle account 'tsotnet' (joined ~2016, last active ~2017), listed in Georgia; no bio - a light competitive-data-science presence consistent with his olympiad background.2017