Nikita Pelagecha

Education

University of Warwick '26


BSc Hons Computer Science

Year: Third year (final)
Grade: Predicted 1st Class

Latest Position

SWE Intern @ Vanguard


    Worked in the Financial Advisory Services team to build analytics tools, optimise CI/CD, and enhance testing for a global B2B investment platform.

Competitions


ICPC UKIEPC 2023: 3rd in UoW
ICPC NWERC 2023: TU Delft
ICHack 2024: Optiver Challenge
ICPC UKIEPC 2024: 2nd in UoW
Warwick Hack 2025: Capital One
ICHack 2025: Anthropic Challenge

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Technical Skills

Proficient:

C++, Python, C, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git

Intermediate:

SQL, Haskell, Swift, TypeScript, Bash

Familiar:

Rust, Prolog, C#

Languages

English, Ukrainian, Russian

Notes

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

Vanguard

Built a portfolio analytics tool with agentic LangGraph MCP, using Markowitz optimisation and Dirichlet stochastic process modelling.

Deep Learning Research Team

University of Warwick - DCS

Applied variational calculus and functional analysis via graphons to explore trainable network topology for DNN pruning.

ML Research Intern

University of Warwick - DCS

Developed a multi-agent RAG architecture for Unix Bash and SQL task execution with Prof. Long Tran-Thanh and researchers from UMD.

Software Engineer Intern

Cosina

Developed and deployed the alpha version of a commercial food delivery website in WordPress, PHP, MAMP, Elementor, and pgAdmin.

CTO/Co-founder

ParkApp

Co-founded a parking app startup in an agile team of 4 (later 6), contributing to 500+ hours of market research and software development.

Archery Specialist

Camp Kinder Ring

Managed the archery program, driving a 50% increase in participant engagement and overseeing activities for 500+ individuals.

Food and Beverage Assistant

Chestnut

Delivered consistent service to 50-100 guests daily, leveraging problem-solving and multitasking skills in a fast-paced environment.

Volunteer, Radio Electronics

Palace of Children's and Youth Creativity

Assembled and soldered circuit boards while gaining practical experience in embedded systems and programming with Arduino and C++.

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