VVVictor Valov
Greater London, England, United Kingdom · operatorVictor Valov is a quantitative developer at Citadel, on the Equity Quant Research (EQR) team, where index-listed career data describes him as Tech Lead QD building engineering infrastructure, optimization software and statistical models for Citadel central equity books (from 2020). Before that he was a software engineer on Bloomberg's FXGO streaming FX trading platform (2015-2019), managing a scrum team of five. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT (2011-2015) with a one-year exchange in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (2013-2014). As a school student in Bulgaria he won Bronze at IMO 2009, Silver at IMO 2010 and Bronze at IMO 2011. The employment and education details above are index/LinkedIn-derived and not independently corroborated by a primary source; the IMO record is confirmed by the official IMO results archive.
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Victor Valov holds an actual quantitative-finance role: Quantitative Developer, EQR (Equity Quant Research), at Citadel from 2020 to present, per index/LinkedIn-derived career data (role title, team, dates and description all present); a prior software-engineering role at Bloomberg FXGO (2015-2019) also sits in trading-systems territory. Citadel is a confirmed quantitative hedge fund and multi-strategy asset manager, and EQR is its equity quant research desk, so the employer classification as quantitative finance is supported. Identity is supported by the IMO official archive (Bulgarian contestant 2009-2011) together with index-listed MIT (Mathematics and Computer Science, 2011-2015) and Cambridge exchange (2013-2014). Caveat: the employment and education facts rest on index/LinkedIn-derived data and are NOT independently corroborated by a primary or non-index source; no separate official Citadel or Bloomberg page naming him was located, so the role detail should be treated as index-sourced rather than primary-source confirmed.Jan 1, 2020
- Index (LinkedIn-derived) lists current role: Quantitative Developer - EQR at Citadel (Tech Lead QD on the Equity Quant Research team), dated 2020-present; index-only, pending primary corroboration.
- Index lists prior role Software Engineer - FXGO at Bloomberg LP, 2015-2019, reimplementing live FX trading on the FXGO streaming platform and managing a scrum team of 5; index-only.
- Index lists education: MIT, Bachelor's in Mathematics and Computer Science 2011-2015; plus a one-year CME exchange at the University of Cambridge 2013-2014 in Mathematics.
- Identity linkage is reasoned, not proven: the IMO record (official archive) establishes a Bulgarian 'Victor Valov' contestant 2009-2011, and the index lists MIT studies beginning 2011 immediately after that last Olympiad, which fits the same person, but no single source ties the Olympiad contestant to the Citadel engineer by name plus a shared unique identifier.
- IMO official record: Victor Valov represented Bulgaria in 2009 (Bronze), 2010 (Silver), and 2011 (Bronze).Jan 1, 2011
- No public GitHub, personal website, blog, articles or named press coverage for this Victor Valov could be located; searches surfaced only unrelated namesakes (a VHOMES owner, other 'Valov' profiles), so the professional footprint is essentially limited to the LinkedIn-derived index record and the IMO archive.
Tech Lead QD at Equity Quant Research team. Building and owning engineering infrastructure, optimization software and statistical models for managing Citadel central books in Equit
Reimplemented and supported live FX trading via the FXGO Streaming trading platform. Managed a scrum team of 5.
Competition record
Bulgaria · IMO