Samuel Hapák

Slovak software entrepreneur. IOI 2008 bronze medalist for Slovakia. Co-founder and CEO of Vacuumlabs (software/fintech engineering). CEO of Wincent since 2021, a high-frequency crypto market-making firm trading ~$5bn notional/day.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Samuel Hapák holds an actual executive role as Chief Executive Officer of Wincent (identified by name in Wincent's own leadership list, on his X bio 'CEO of Wincent', on GitHub company 'Wincent', and in FN London/Hedgeweek press calling him 'Former Vacuumlabs boss' now CEO of Wincent). Wincent is a genuine systematic/quantitative trading employer - it self-describes as a high-frequency trading firm for digital assets operating since 2017, trading ~500k trades and ~$5bn notional/day across 15+ venues with $750M deployed capital, and is authorised as a regulated Experienced Investor Fund by the Gibraltar GFSC. This is an operating/trading-firm role, not a student program. Prior role: co-founder and CEO of Vacuumlabs, a software/fintech engineering firm (not itself a quant trading firm).Dec 9, 2025
• FN London describes him as 'Former Vacuumlabs boss Samuel Hapak' now CEO of Wincent, and reports Wincent planned to hire 50 staff (traders, quantitative experts, engineers) after an 11% gain - independent confirmation of both roles; the report does not describe a personal quant trading role for him, only the CEO seat.May 23, 2025
• Co-founded Vacuumlabs ('S kamomi som zalozil VacuumLabs' - with friends I founded VacuumLabs) and built web apps in Python/Dart; grew it into a software/fintech engineering firm before leaving to lead Wincent, an operator-to-executive trajectory into crypto HFT.2013
• IOI 2008 (Slovakia) contestant: bronze medal, absolute rank 138/283 (51.59%), score 129/600; olympiad-identity anchor for this profile.Aug 23, 2008
• Wincent's careers page advertises 'Senior Quants/Traders' and lists co-founder Matus Kopf as Head of Trading, further confirming the firm is a systematic trading operation rather than merely carrying a 'quant' name.
• X account @samuha bio reads 'CEO of Wincent' (verified account) - independent non-index confirmation that the Wincent CEO role is current.
• Named CEO of Vacuumlabs in Forbes Slovensko '30 pod 30' 2020, a prior executive role predating Wincent.2020
• GitHub hleumas is named 'Samuel Hapák' with company 'Wincent', cross-linking the GitHub identity to the same person.
• Quoted as Wincent CEO in a Finery Markets liquidity-provider announcement and an Opal Group digital-assets panel - a public voice in institutional crypto trading.
• Crunchbase lists 2 current jobs (CEO at Wincent, Chairman of ...) and location Bratislava, Slovakia, and education at FMFI Comenius University; aggregator/index-only, not primary-source confirmation.