Yash Thakker

I am an undergraduate student at NUS studying computer science who loves doing competitive programming and also a problem setter at Codechef and Codeforces. I also like taking part in sport activities and have FIDE rating 1553 in chess. Captain and active participant in badminton, cricket, and volleyball. I also like solving mathematical puzzles.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. The only quantitative-finance-linked entries on his record are Jane Street's Portal and FTTP student programs (multi-day educational programs, per LinkedIn descriptions and Jane Street's own program pages), which the verification criteria exclude; no internship, paid role, or other actual employment at Jane Street or any other quant firm could be confirmed from primary sources, while his identity is supported (LinkedIn, IOI records) and Jane Street's quant-firm status is established. Student programs alone do not qualify, so this is recorded as not confirmed rather than as an actual role.2026
• Identity: the LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/yash-thakker-809781251 carries the headline 'CS @ NUS | IOI Bronze Medal | APIO silver medallist | INOI gold medallist | Master on Codeforces' and lists the same Jane Street PORTAL/FTTP program entries and IOI achievements as the India IOI competitor, so the profile and the IOI identity are one and the same person.2026
• Took part in two Jane Street student programs in 2026: Portal ('Research & Trading' track, Singapore) and FTTP, the First-Year Trading and Technology Program (Hong Kong) - LinkedIn describes them as market-making simulations, classes and team-based exercises, i.e. multi-day educational/introductory programs.2026
• Jane Street is verifiably a proprietary quantitative trading firm and market maker ('Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider'), so the employer behind his PORTAL/FTTP entries genuinely operates in quantitative finance - distinct from a company merely having 'quant' in its name.2026
• Represented India at IOI 2024 (hosted in Egypt, 1-8 Sep 2024) and won a bronze medal, finishing 144th with 244.11/600; IARCS records him as part of the Indian team from Garodia International Centre of Learning, Mumbai.Sep 6, 2024
• Undergraduate path: started a BSc in Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (2025-2026), then transferred to the National University of Singapore for a BSc in Computer Science (2026-2029); the move to Singapore coincides with his later IOI appearance and the Jane Street Singapore program.2026
• Represented India again at IOI 2025 (Bolivia) and received an Honourable Mention, finishing 173rd with 245.48/600 - so his two IOI appearances produced a medal and an honourable mention, not a second medal.Aug 3, 2025
• Synthesis: his record before 2025 is entirely school-level olympiad and problem-setting activity in Mumbai, then from 2025 it shifts to Singapore university study plus Jane Street student programs - two appearances at IOI across the high-school-to-university transition, with the trading-firm contact arriving only after he moved to Singapore.2026
• Won a silver medal for India at APIO 2025 (Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad), announced on his own LinkedIn post.2025
• Won a gold medal at INOI 2025 (Indian National Olympiad in Informatics) while in Class 12 at Garodia International Centre for Learning, Mumbai - the top national school-level informatics result that made him IOI-eligible.2025
• Education history: IBDP at Garodia International Centre of Learning, Mumbai (2023-2025) and Sheth Karamshi Kanji English School, India (2010-2023) - his two IOI appearances in Sep 2024 and Aug 2025 therefore span the transition out of high school.2025
• Worked as a problem setter: author of Codeforces Round 882 and seven problems across seven CodeChef contests, including being a problem setter at the SnackDown 2021 finals - a sustained voluntary technical contribution rather than a paid role.2022