Wayne Yan

Wayne Yan (also recorded as Wei-Hua Yan) is a Taiwanese software engineer and competitive-programming competitor. He represented Taiwan at the International Mathematical Olympiad in both 2021 and 2022, winning a bronze medal each year, and later studied Computer Science (CSIE) at National Taiwan University, where he competed on the ICPC team 'fruit_advantages'. He held a Software Engineer Internship at Jane Street from June to August 2025 in Hong Kong, a role at a quantitative trading and market-making firm, and is listed on LinkedIn as a Software Engineer at Google. Identity is anchored on the IMO official record (id=31213), Codeforces, the NTU ICPC roster and the specific LinkedIn profile URL; no GitHub, X/Twitter, personal site or email was found.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported (IMO participant page id=31213 lists the Taiwan contestant Wei-Hua Yan with 2021 and 2022 results; a Codeforces profile 'Wayne Yan, Taipei, Taiwan. From Taipei Muncipal Jianguo HS'; the NTU ICPC team 'fruit_advantages (Hsin-Wei Hou, Ting-Wei Chang, Wei-Hua Yan)'; and a LinkedIn profile 'Wayne Yan - Ex-SWE Intern @ Jane Street | CSIE @ NTU'). Employment: the LinkedIn enrichment index shows a Software Engineer Internship at Jane Street, 2025-06 to 2025-08, 3 months, Hong Kong, corroborated by the LinkedIn directory headline 'Ex-SWE Intern @ Jane Street'. Employer classification: Jane Street's own site describes it as 'a global liquidity provider and trading firm that uses sophisticated quantitative analysis' - i.e. a quantitative market maker, so this is an actual quantitative-finance internship, not a student program. Identity is supported across two independent source families (IMO/Codeforces + LinkedIn), so the confirmation does not rest on the index alone.Aug 2025
• LinkedIn directory headline reads 'Ex-SWE Intern @ Jane Street | CSIE @ NTU', which independently restates (outside the enrichment index) both the Jane Street internship and the NTU CSIE enrollment.Sep 2025
• Jane Street internship ran June 2025 to August 2025 (3 months) in Hong Kong - this is dated employment, not a camp, insight day or scholarship; recorded from the LinkedIn enrichment index only.Aug 2025
• Jane Street self-describes as 'a global liquidity provider and trading firm that uses sophisticated quantitative analysis and a deep understanding of market mechanics', confirming it operates in quantitative finance; a role there is genuinely quant-trading, not merely a company name containing 'quant'.Sep 2026
• Current role appears as 'Software Engineer at Google' on the LinkedIn /in page, with no dates stated; the index and page give no start date, so no employment start is recorded and this is not inferred to be current from an old snapshot.Sep 2025
• Name used on the IMO record is 'Wei-Hua Yan' while LinkedIn/Codeforces use 'Wayne Yan'; the two-year IMO record, the Taiwan location and the NTU CSIE context tie the two names to one person.Jul 2022
• No GitHub, X/Twitter, personal site or published email was found for this individual in repeated name sweeps; most 'Wayne Yan' hits on the open web are different people (a South African CTO/founder, a physician, an artist), so identity is anchored to the IMO record, Codeforces, NTU ICPC and the specific LinkedIn profile URL.Sep 2026
• Competed for National Taiwan University on the ICPC-style team 'fruit_advantages' with Hsin-Wei Hou and Ting-Wei Chang (stage 27 London and a 2025 winter camp) under the name Wei-Hua Yan - further confirmation that Wayne Yan and Wei-Hua Yan are the same NTU contestant.Jan 2025
• IMO 2022 (Taiwan): bronze medal, 25 points, rank 230 (61.1%); the same official page shows both 2021 and 2022 under one contestant record.Jul 2022
• IMO 2021 (Taiwan): bronze medal, 15 points, rank 180 (71.1%) - an official IMO record under the given/registered name Wei-Hua Yan.Jul 2021
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (CSIE) at National Taiwan University, per the LinkedIn enrichment index - labeled INDEX-ONLY; no graduation year was stated, so none is recorded.Jan 2025
• Codeforces profile Wayne_Yan gives 'Wayne Yan, Taipei, Taiwan. From Taipei Muncipal Jianguo HS', placing his competitive-programming and secondary-school background in Taipei and confirming the Jianguo High School education entry.Jan 2023