Violeta Kastreva

AI Researcher

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria5 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Recognized as Student of the Year 2024 and 2025.
Mentored hundreds of students in mathematics and programming.
Advanced to the Terminal Round of Citadel Datathon 2025.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused quantitative analyst with strong software engineering skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

TeachingMathematicsSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Competitive MathematicsStatisticsCalculusAlgorithmsLinear AlgebraAbstract AlgebraKnex.jsReact.jsTypeScriptJava DevelopmentPyTorchDeep LearningMachine TranslationSimulation ModelingNatural Language Processing (NLP)

About

I'm a Computer Science student at Sofia University, recognized as "Student of the Year 2025" as well as "Student of the Year 2024" in Mathematics and Informatics. My background includes numerous Gold and Silver medals in international and national Mathematics Olympiads. I'm a Teaching Assistant at Sofia University, where I lead courses such as Competitive Mathematics, Programming in C++, Calculus II, Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra, and Discrete Mathematics & Automata, mentoring hundreds of students.

Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

Imc trading

Incoming Quantitative Trader Intern

Apr 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Sofia university st. kliment ohridski

2 roles

Research Assistant

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Teaching Assistant

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Led the courses:
Probability and Statistics
Linear Algebra
Programming in C++
Calculus I, Calculus II
Competitive Mathematics
Abstract Algebra
Discrete Mathematics and Automata Theory

Competitive MathematicsStatisticsCalculusAlgorithmsLinear AlgebraAbstract Algebra+2

Eth zürich

Summer Research Fellow

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 · 2 mos · On-site

First author of a paper accepted at ICLR 2026

Citadel

Citadel Datathon

May 2025 – May 2025 · 0 mo · Remote

Advanced to the Terminal Round of the Citadel Securities & Correlation One Datathon 2025, ranking in the top 60 from thousands of applicants across Europe.
Developed predictive models on large-scale energy market data, analyzing patterns across finance, economics, and real-world signals to extract actionable insights for Citadel’s quantitative research and engineering teams.

Optiver

Career Kickstarter - Tech

Mar 2025 – Apr 2025 · 1 mo · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site

Chosen for a selective Optiver program focused on technology in trading. Engaged with engineers, traders and researchers, participated in real-world problem-solving sessions, and built a trading exchange to explore core market dynamics.

Bulgarian national television

Software Engineer

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria · Remote

Engineered a high-performance semantic search engine, optimized database retrieval, and implemented a personalized content recommendation system for the streaming platform play.bnt.bg.

Knex.jsReact.jsTypeScriptSoftware Engineering