Valentin Vornicu is a mathematician, semi-professional midstakes poker player, and software engineer, formerly at Google.

Before founding MathLinks, he worked as a full-stack engineer for Art of Problem Solving.

[1] Vornicu was a part of the Romanian team for the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) in 2001 and 2002.

[4] Vornicu is holding 13 titles at the amateur tour, that account for circuit rings, with his biggest score coming in 2015 for $197,110.

[5] In July 2016, he finishing 23rd in the 2016 World Professional Poker Championship for $269,430 in an event of which he held the lead after day 2.