Vaidotas Kurlianskas

Data science and decisioning leader at ING Netherlands, currently Lead Orchestration & Pricing; previously Product Lead Personalization and Manager Data Science at the same firm. Background in mathematics (B.Sc., Jacobs University Bremen; earlier study at the University of Manchester and an exchange at Amsterdam University College). Before moving into data science he worked in financial markets: a Derivatives Trader role at Amsterdam options market-maker Scrocca Option Trading B.V. (2012) and a quantitative-research internship at ING Investment Management (2012-2013). Represented Lithuania at the IMO 2008 (Bronze).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Vaidotas Kurlianskas held two roles that are quant/financial-markets work rather than student programs: a Derivatives Trader position at Scrocca Option Trading B.V. (Amsterdam, 2012), and an Internship in Quantitative Research in ING Investment Management's Strategic Tactical Asset Allocation Group (2012-2013). Identity is supported across independent sources - the IMO record (Lithuania 2008), the same name linked to Jacobs University Bremen mathematics, and a PRMIA speaker bio describing 'Data Science manager at ING' who 'previously worked in financial markets as a trader and a quant'. Employer classification: Scrocca Option Trading B.V. was an Amsterdam exchange-traded-options market maker (a 2008 new member of the London Stock Exchange and a listed liquidity provider / market maker for NYSE Liffe equity options and Eurex); ING Investment Management was the asset-management arm of ING. Both are genuine quantitative/trading employers, not name-only 'quant' entities. Caveat: the role titles and dates rest on the LinkedIn-derived index and are index-only, though their quant-finance character is independently corroborated by the PRMIA bio.2019
• A PRMIA Netherlands speaker bio states he worked 'in financial markets as a trader and a quant, after completing his studies in mathematics' - the single independent source that corroborates the trading/quant roles beyond the LinkedIn-derived index.2019
• Scrocca Option Trading B.V. was an Amsterdam market maker in exchange-traded options: it was a new London Stock Exchange member in 2008 and is listed as a liquidity provider for NYSE Liffe equity options alongside All Options International and Fluhalp Trading, which classifies the Derivatives Trader role as genuine market-making work.2013
• Held a Derivatives Trader role at Scrocca Option Trading B.V. (Amsterdam) in 2012, described in the LinkedIn-derived index as market making single stock and index options; dates are index-only.2012
• Interned at ING Investment Management (Oct 2012-Mar 2013) in Quantitative Research within the Strategic Tactical Asset Allocation Group, per the LinkedIn-derived index; this role is a genuine quant-research internship, though the dates and title are index-only.2012
• Career timeline: Terra Markets AS equity-research internship (2008) -> Fraunhofer MeVis research assistant, compressed-sensing MRI (2011) -> Scrocca options trader (2012) -> ING Investment Management quant-research internship (2012-2013) -> Perceptum data scientist (2013) -> ING data scientist and data-science manager (2013-2022) -> Product Lead Personalization (2023-2025) -> Lead Orchestration & Pricing (2025-) - a trajectory from applied mathematics and trading into data science leadership, with all pre-2013 entries resting on the LinkedIn-derived index only.
• Represented Lithuania at the 49th IMO (2008) with a score of 18, earning a Bronze medal, per the official IMO results.2008
• Serves as a Track sponsor for the ING AI for Fintech (AFR) research lab at TU Delft, tying his ING work to applied AI/ML research.2024
• As a Jacobs University mathematics freshman he was part of a three-person team ('Time and Location Scaling Approach to Geographical Profiling of a serial killer') awarded a Meritorious Winner designation in the 2010 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.2010
• Joined ING in 2013 and has stayed through at least four successive roles over more than a decade, an unusually long single-employer tenure for the domain.
• Studied mathematics across several institutions: first year of a B.Sc. at The University of Manchester (2008-2009), a B.Sc. in Mathematics at Jacobs University Bremen (2009-2012, with an exchange year at Amsterdam University College), after Kaunas University of Technology Gymnasium (2004-2008).
• A public ING post dated Oct 2025 describes him as 'Customer Journey Expert / Orchestration Decisioning Strategist', which coheres with the 'Lead Orchestration & Pricing' title in the LinkedIn-derived index and indicates the current role is active as of late 2025.Oct 2025