Petr Mitrichev

Petr Mitrichev
Petr Mitrichev after winning the Facebook Hacker Cup 2011
Born (1985-03-19) 19 March 1985 (age 39)
Nationality Russia
EducationMoscow State University
Known forVarious competitive programming achievements
AwardsCodeforces peak rating 3597 (July 2016)
Websitehttps://petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com/

Petr Mitrichev (born 19 March 1985) is a Russian competitive programmer who has won multiple major international competitions. His accomplishments include gold (2000, 2002) and silver (2001) medals in the IOI, gold medals (2003, 2005) in the ACM ICPC World Finals as part of the team of Moscow State University and winning Google Code Jam (2006[1]), the Topcoder Open (2018, 2015, 2013, 2006[2]), the Topcoder Collegiate Challenge (2006,[3] 2007[4]), Facebook Hacker Cup (2011,[5] 2013, 2017) as well as numerous national and online contests. He has achieved the highest rating ever among the Algorithm competitors of Topcoder[6] and consistently ranks in the top two of the world. He is the second highest rated Algorithm coder on Topcoder ratings as of February 2021.[7] He currently works at Google on the search engine[8] and helps to prepare Code Jam.[9]

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  2. ^ "Russian, US and Indonesian Programmers Win $150,000 TopCoder Open Sponsored By AMD in Las Vegas; Computer Programmers Celebrated at TopCoder Open World Championship Sponsored by AMD, UBS, National Security Agency and VeriSign. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com.
  3. ^ Inc., TopCoder. "Russia's nicka81 and Petr, China's PE Triumph at TopCoder Collegiate Challenge in San Diego". www.prnewswire.com. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Inc., TopCoder. "Students from Russian Federation, China, Indonesia and United States Win 2007 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge". www.prnewswire.com. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. ^ Metz, Cade (12 March 2011). "Ruskie Java coder lifts inaugural Facebook Hacker Cup". The Register.
  6. ^ "TopCoder Statistics - Top Ranked Algorithm Competitors". community.topcoder.com.
  7. ^ "Community Profile of Petr on TopCoder".
  8. ^ Simonite, Tom. "In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold".
  9. ^ "Dashboard - Round 3 2012 - Google Code Jam". code.google.com.