# Nikolay Slavev

> J.P. Morgan • University of Cambridge

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikolayslavev

Quantitative Strategy and Software Engineering experience with MSc in Financial Technology and BSc in Computer Science.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ J.P. Morgan
Jan 2025 – Present | London

### Software Engineer @ Verition Fund Management LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | London, England, United Kingdom

### Quant @ Morgan Stanley
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom
Overall - Used applied probability, numerical analysis and coding to make decisions on pricing models, hedging strategies and risk measures that drive trading decisions.

Credit Desk Strategist - Development in Python, C++, Q and Scala for CDS index options and tranches. Automation on pricing tranches based on Gaussian Copula with Correlated Recovery, finding hypothetical PV impact on defaults and spread shifts, reporting PnL and risks of options, backfilling volatilities using SVR algorithm, calculating carry and roll on curve and fly trades.

### Software Engineer @ FactSet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | London, United Kingdom
Overall - Developing financial technology products providing real-time access to financial data and analytics that investment bankers, analysts and traders use to make investment decisions.

Research (Partners) - Development in C++ and C# to service equity and fixed-income data and reports available in MS Office.

One of the winners of the SpeedSprint Competition (2x) for best speed improvements to the products
- Improved the database retrieval of a client’s financial research reports from 1.5 hours to 10 minutes
- Improved the CSV conversion of a client’s equity reports from 1 hour to 3 minutes

### Software Engineer @ GE
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, United Kingdom
Overall - Developed global market leading GIS and Asset Management tools supporting major utility industries

DevOps Team – Automation and development work on the whole product’s portfolio covering Build, Code, Test, Monitor, Operate, Deploy and Release stages. Led the daily product failure resolutions by distributing the work to relevant employees. 

Platform Team - Core software development on all GIS products. Worked on new Mobile Enterprise products providing Electric Office and Physical Network Inventory functionalities. 

Volunteering – Delivering Coding Workshops at Hills Road Sixth Form College Cambridge. Participated in the “Fergus Fives” charity football event 

Trained in the Gymnastics club at the University of Cambridge

### Insight day @ Airbus
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Stevenage, United Kingdom
Learnt about space and defence technologies and won a group challenge for proposing an apparatus to complete a space mission


## Education
### MSt Entrepreneurship
University of Cambridge

### MSc Financial Technology
UCL

### BSc Computer Science (Industrial)
University of Leeds

### Diploma za zavarsheno sredno obrazovanie in Informatics and Mathematics
"Akad. Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov" High school of Mathematics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikolayslavev96

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Last updated: 2026-04-05