Yair Chuchem

Israeli software engineer and co-founder of Sound Radix, an audio-plugins company whose Auto-Align Post 2 received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award. He competed for Israel at the IOI in 2000-2002, earning one gold and two silver medals. His indexed career spans Hyperroll, the IDF (researcher/developer), XIV Ltd. (enterprise storage, acquired by IBM), Lucid, Axiom Investment Advisors LLC, and Google. He is the creator of Lamdu, an open-source live-programming structured editor, and maintains an active technical blog. Based in Tel Aviv.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Index-only LinkedIn history lists a 'Programmer' role at Axiom Investment Advisors LLC (2007-09 to 2009-04), an FX/statistical-trading investment adviser that sued Deutsche Bank in 2015 over FX trading; the role's dates sit between his Hyperroll/XIV-era engineering jobs and Google, and the same role is echoed by RocketReach. Axiom is a genuine quantitative-FX firm, but the role title ('Programmer') and dates rest on index/aggregator sources, not an independently read primary page; identity is corroborated separately via GitHub/blog/Sound Radix. The other candidate 'quant-sounding' employer, XIV Ltd., is NOT a trading firm.2026
• Identity corroborated: LinkedIn (il.linkedin.com/in/yairchuchem) headline 'Co-founder at Sound Radix' and GitHub account yairchu (Yair Chuchem) belong to the IOI medalist Yair Chuchem; GitHub, the personal blog yairchu.github.io, Lamdu, and Sound Radix cross-link to the same person.2026
• Axiom Investment Advisors LLC specializes in foreign-currency trading and, per its own description, integrates 'modern sophisticated statistical techniques' - a systematic/quantitative FX trading approach; it was the plaintiff in Axiom Investment Advisors LLC et al. v. Deutsche Bank AG (S.D.N.Y., filed 2015) over FX trading.2015
• XIV Ltd. is an Israeli enterprise data-storage company (Nextra storage system) founded 2002 and acquired by IBM for ~$300-350M (deal completed Dec 2007, announced Jan 2008) - it is NOT a trading or quant firm, so the 'Software Engineer at XIV Ltd.' role is a storage-software engineering job, not a finance one.2008
• Indexed employment history (LinkedIn index; not independently primary-confirmed): Software Engineer at Google; Co-founder at Sound Radix; Programmer at Axiom Investment Advisors LLC; Algorithms Engineer at Lucid; Software Engineer at XIV Ltd.; Researcher and Developer at IDF; Developer at Hyperroll Inc. No dates were exposed except the Axiom role (2007-09 to 2009-04).2026
• Creator (with Eyal Lotem) of Lamdu, an open-source live-programming / structured-editing IDE and functional language, cited in academic program-editor research (SNAPL 2017, UIST 2023).2017
• Founded Sound Radix in July 2010 with Nir Averbuch and Dan Raviv; Startup Nation Central and Sound Radix's own 'Our Story' page name the three co-founders.2010
• Olympiad record: represented Israel at the IOI in 2000, 2001 and 2002, winning 1 gold and 2 silver medals, per the IOI statistics archive and the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame.2026
• Sound Radix's Auto-Align Post 2 received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award (2025), cited to co-founder Yair Chuchem and team - recognition of the company he co-founded, not of him individually.2025
• Israeli tech press describes Nir Averbuch, Yair Chuchem and Dan Raviv as 'veterans of Unit 8200' (the IDF signals-intelligence unit), consistent with the indexed 'Researcher and Developer at IDF' role.2025
• Facebook profile (facebook.com/yairchu) lists 'Lives in Tel Aviv, Israel', 'Co-founder at Sound Radix', 'Former Software engineer at Google', and 'Went to mekif omer' - corroborating the Tel Aviv base and Google history, and naming Mekif Omer as a school.2026
• Sound Radix's Auto-Align Post received a 72nd Engineering Emmy Award (Oct 2020); the ceremony credited Dan Raviv, Nir Averbuch, Yair Chuchem, Tal Aviram and Zvika Roitman of Sound Radix.Oct 29, 2020