Yik Chun Wong

Yik Chun Wong is a Hong Kong software engineer and competitive programmer. He represented Hong Kong at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2016 (bronze) and 2017 (silver), and competed for the Chinese University of Hong Kong team 'Play Energy' at ICPC Asia regionals through 2020. He graduated from CUHK with a BSc in Computer Science (2017-2021). His listed career is software engineering across trading-technology firms: Volant Trading (2021-2022), Nex/homecourt.ai (2022-2023), Amber Group as a C++ developer (2023-2025), and Citadel Securities from 2026. Earlier he held a HomeCourt software engineering internship (2019) and a Credit Suisse technology summer analyst placement (2020).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is corroborated across three independent records: IOI 2016/2017 Hong Kong contestant (stats.ioinformatics.org/people/5911), ICPC contestant for CUHK team 'Play Energy' with a matching published Yahoo address (icpc.global), and a LinkedIn profile listing CUHK BSc Computer Science 2017-2021 in Hong Kong. Employment leads resolved to actual roles, not student programs: Volant Trading Software Engineer (2021-06 to 2022-03), Amber Group C++ Developer (2023-05 to 2025-06), Amber Group 'Non-compete' (2025-06 to 2026-03), and Citadel Securities Software Engineer (2026-03 to present). Employer classification from company primary sources: Volant Trading describes itself as a 'technology-driven proprietary trading firm... specialized in automated options, futures and equities trading'; Amber Group describes itself as a 'global liquidity provider and market maker at the center of global crypto markets'; Citadel Securities describes itself as a technology-driven global market maker. Which of these are quantitative in practice: all three operate in automated/algorithmic market making or prop trading. Credit Suisse Technology Summer Analyst (2020) is a bank technology internship, not a confirmed quant role; Nex/homecourt.ai is an AI sports-video company, not a quant firm. Caveat: the role timeline is self-reported on LinkedIn (an index) and was not independently confirmed by a third-party primary source; the IOI/ICPC records confirm the person, not the jobs.
• Volant Trading classifies as a quantitative trading employer: its own site describes it as a 'technology-driven trading firm comprised of quantitative traders and technologists' specializing in 'automated options, futures and equities trading' and a proprietary trading firm, and it hires software developers and traders in Hong Kong.
• Amber Group classifies as a crypto quantitative market-making employer: it describes itself as 'a global liquidity provider and market maker at the center of global crypto markets' citing $5bn+ daily market-making volumes across 200+ tokens; this is crypto market making, not traditional equity quant.
• Citadel Securities classifies as a quantitative market-maker: its site describes a technology-driven global market maker trading $800B+ notional per day and relying on 'powerful predictive models', so a software engineering role there sits inside a quant trading firm.
• Amber Group 'C++ Developer' (2023-05 to 2025-06) followed by a same-employer 'Non-compete' entry (2025-06 to 2026-03) before joining Citadel Securities suggests a garden-leave period between the Amber Group exit and the Citadel start; the non-compete is the gap, not a separate job.2025
• The two earliest listed roles are a Credit Suisse Technology Summer Analyst (2020) and a HomeCourt (NEX Team) Software Engineer Intern (2019); the former is a bank technology internship rather than a confirmed quant role, and the latter is at an AI sports-video company, so neither is verified quant work.2020
• Competitive-programming record: IOI 2016 bronze (rank 121) and IOI 2017 silver (rank 28) for Hong Kong, then CUHK team 'Play Energy' medals at ICPC regionals 2019-2020 (gold at 2019 Hong Kong, 2020 Jinan; silver at 2020 Macau) - a sustained algorithmic-contest record through university.2020