David Vasak

David Vasak is a quantitative developer and researcher working in high-frequency trading. He competed for Australia at the 2010 International Mathematical Olympiad (Astana), winning a bronze medal as AUS5. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (BA 2011-2014, MMath 2014-2015) after attending Sydney Grammar School. He has since worked across several top quant firms: software developer at IMC Financial Markets (Zug, 2015-2017), quantitative researcher at Citadel Securities (Chicago, 2017-2022), and since 2022 Quant/Dev at Quadrature in London.

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• Won a bronze medal for Australia at the 51st IMO (Astana 2010), scoring 14 points (problems 6/0/0/7/1/0) as team member AUS5; the Australia team finished in the low medal range, making this a top-tier national maths result.Jul 2010
• Career trajectory (IMC -> Citadel Securities -> Quadrature) tracks a classic elite-mathematics-to-high-frequency-trading path: olympiad medalist to Cambridge maths to quant dev/research at three leading trading firms, with a move from Chicago (Citadel) to London (Quadrature) in 2022.2022
• IMO 2010 participation is corroborated by the official IMO results listing and multiple score tables, confirming the identity link between the olympiad competitor and the later quant professional.
• Educated at Sydney Grammar School before Cambridge, indicating an Australian upbringing and selective-school maths pathway prior to the IMO and overseas university.