Petr Mitrichev

I first learned about Petr Mitrichev the past year when he won 2011’s Facebook Hacker Cup. He’s a Google developer leading the current competitive programming challenges. He also keeps an interesting blog at petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com where he talks about algorithms and sometimes challenges his readers with some problems.

MIT’s Technology Review has a nice introductory article about him.

I also found some interesting reading material if you’re into competitive programming. Codeforces has a great post about Sao Paulo Training Camp 2010 containing his solutions to problems and some video explanations.

Update March 2013: He came up on top at 2013’s Facebook Hacker Cup as well. This is guy is amazing :)

Links:

• MIT’s Technology review article about Petr Mitrichev
• Petr Mitrichev’s blog
• Facebook Hacker Cup
• Petr Mitrichev, Last 3 days in Sao Paulo Training Camp 2010 at Codeforces