Nikola Raicevic

Software developer at the proprietary trading firm DRW in New York and MIT-trained computer scientist (BS CS & Mathematics, MEng CS). Three-time International Mathematical Olympiad medalist for Montenegro (2015 bronze, 2016 silver, 2017 bronze). Prior internships at Jump Trading (quantitative research, 2020), DRW (software engineering, 2021) and Microsoft (software engineering, 2019).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn index enrichment (a third-party index, not primary-source confirmation) lists three actual quantitative-trading internships/roles: Quantitative Research Intern at Jump Trading LLC, Jun-Aug 2020; Software Engineer Intern at DRW, 2021; and Software Developer at DRW, 2022-present (Chicago/NY). The identity is supported independently: the same profile name, MIT education and this exact LinkedIn URL appear across the index, the DRW search snippet ('Nikola Raicevic. Software Developer at DRW. New York, NY'), and the IMO/MIT records for the Montenegrin IMO medalist who attended MIT. Employer classification from company sources: DRW's own site describes it as a trading firm (drw.com 'trading'), and Jump Trading is a proprietary trading firm focused on algorithmic/high-frequency trading (jumptrading.com describes research/trading roles; Wikipedia classifies it as a proprietary trading firm). Jump Trading's 'Quantitative Research Intern' role is directly quant; the DRW roles are engineering roles at a quant trading firm rather than quant-research titles. The Jump internship dates ('Jun 2020', Aug 2020) and DRW dates (2021, 2022-present) come from the index and have not been confirmed on a primary page; no index is independent primary-source confirmation.Jan 1, 2022
• DRW is a principal trading firm (not a bank or asset manager); its own site foregrounds 'trading', and its LinkedIn company page lists specialties 'trading, technology, research, quantitative'. A Software Developer role there is a technology role at a quant trading firm, not a quantitative-research title.Sep 17, 2026
• Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm specializing in algorithmic and high-frequency trading (per Wikipedia and jumptrading.com), so the 2020 Quantitative Research Intern role is directly in quantitative finance.Sep 17, 2026
• Career timeline (per LinkedIn index): Microsoft Software Engineer Intern 2019 -> Jump Trading LLC Quantitative Research Intern 2020 -> DRW Software Engineer Intern 2021 -> DRW Software Developer 2022-present. The progression is from general software internship to a quant-trading research internship to full-time engineering at a trading firm.Jan 1, 2022
• IMO record: represented Montenegro at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2015 (Bronze, 16 pts, rank 183), 2016 (Silver, 24 pts, rank 94) and 2017 (Bronze, 16 pts, rank 265) - three consecutive years on the Montenegrin team.Jul 22, 2017
• Listed in the MIT 2023 Commencement graduates name book with an MEng DPR/thesis titled 'DPR Cluster: An Automated Framework for Deploying Resilient Stateful Cloud...' (dated September 2022), consistent with graduate study in MIT EECS (Computer Science).Jun 1, 2023
• Attended the Mathematical Grammar School (Matematicka gimnazija) in Montenegro, then went to MIT; Montenegrin press ('the mathematical pearl from Podgorica') covered his olympiad medals while he was a high-school student.Jul 1, 2016