Mikhail Natalevich

Mikhail Natalevich is a software engineer at Wunder Fund, a global proprietary high-frequency trading firm, which he joined in January 2023 in Krakow, Poland. He competed for Belarus at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2016, winning a silver medal (rank 40/308, score 388/600), and later reached the ICPC 2022 World Finals with a Belarusian State University team (rank 20). His earlier engineering career was at Yandex on self-driving cars (intern 2017 and 2018, software engineer 2019-2021), and he taught at Belarusian State University (2021-2023). He holds an MS in Machine Learning & Big Data from Belarusian State University, a BS there, and studied at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The subject has an actual current role in quantitative trading: Software Engineer at Wunder Fund since January 2023, per his LinkedIn profile (mikhail-natalevich) and corroborated by his GitHub identity and multiple directory listings (RocketReach, AeroLeads, LinkedIn directory all show 'Software Engineer at Wunder Fund'). Employer classification: Wunder Fund's own site describes it as a global proprietary trading firm founded in 2014 that provides liquidity on exchanges across Europe, Asia and the Americas with ~$4B daily turnover, and recruits a research team to find market inefficiencies and build high-frequency trading strategies; Crunchbase and a HFT-firm directory also classify it as a proprietary/HFT firm. This is an actual employment role, not a student program, competition, camp or scholarship. Identity is supported by the IOI 2016 record (Belarus silver medalist), the linked Codeforces handle, and consistent education/location (Belarusian State University, Krakow). No other quantitative-finance role or internship was found: his prior roles were Yandex self-driving cars (internships 2017/2018; engineer 2019-2021) and a university teaching post (2021-2023), none of which are quantitative-finance. Classifications of the specific Wunder Fund role are inferential: primary sources confirm 'Software Engineer' at an HFT/proprietary trading firm, but do not state the role's team or function.2026
• Wunder Fund's own site describes it as a global proprietary trading firm providing liquidity since 2014 with roughly $4B in daily turnover, and separately recruits a research team to find market inefficiencies and build high-frequency strategies - so the employer is a genuine quantitative/algorithmic trading firm, not merely a company with 'quant' in its name.2026
• Joined Wunder Fund as a Software Engineer in January 2023 and remains there as of the profile snapshot; Wunder Fund is a global proprietary high-frequency trading firm founded 2014 that provides liquidity on exchanges in Europe, Asia and the Americas.Jan 2023
• IOI 2016 in Kazan: represented Belarus as a contestant and won a silver medal, absolute rank 40 of 308 with 388/600 points.Aug 19, 2016
• Competed at the ICPC 2022 World Finals (held April 2024) on Belarusian State University's second team (BelarusianSU #2) with Aliaksandr Kernazhytski and Stanislau Tsitsianok, finishing rank 20 - his university-level programming competition record extends to 2022/2024, well after his IOI medal.Apr 18, 2024
• Two summer software engineering internships at Yandex on the self-driving cars team (Moscow in 2017, then Minsk in 2018), followed by a two-year full Software Engineer role on the same Yandex self-driving cars team (2019-2021) - an autonomous-vehicle/perception engineering background rather than a trading one.2019
• Codeforces handle minthe ('Natalevich Mikhail', Minsk, Belarus, Belarusian SU) is rated Candidate Master; the IOI stats page links handle misha98391, which redirects to the same minthe profile - both handles belong to him.2026
• The Yandex School of Data Analysis (YSDA) run (2017-2020) and his MS specialization in Machine Learning & Big Data, combined with a Wunder Fund research team that hires model-builders, suggest an ML/data-science leaning within an HFT engineering role - though no source states his specific Wunder Fund team or function.2020
• His LinkedIn headline is rendered as 'Software Engineer, Data Scientist, IOI medalist' in LinkedIn directory listings, indicating he self-positions across engineering and data science rather than as a trader.2026
• Taught as a University Teacher at Belarusian State University from September 2021 to April 2023 while completing his MS there - the teaching overlapped both his graduate study and the first months of his Wunder Fund role.Sep 2021
• Education spans Belarusian State University (BS 2016-2020; MS in Machine Learning & Big Data 2021-2023) and the Yandex School of Data Analysis (Computer Science/ML & Big Data, 2017-2020) - the BS start year (2016) matches his IOI year, consistent with an undergraduate entry in 2016.2020
• Index-only data (RocketReach and similar aggregators) lists him as 'Software Engineer at Wunder Fund' from 2023 to present in Krakow, PL; this matches the LinkedIn-derived index data but is an aggregator, not independent primary-source confirmation.2026