Resume

Samuel Katsaros

Professional Experience

Augr Inc.

Aug 2023 – Present

Senior Private Equity Intern | Manhattan, New York

  • Managing a team of private equity interns, overseeing the sourcing and analysis of + 50 weekly deals
  • Leading technical PortCo operations, developing real-time scrapers, and APIs to streamline backend and generate leads
  • Executing leveraged buyouts with high opportunity for add-on investments, capitalizing on multiple arbitrage
  • Securing follow-on capital for merger & acquisition strategy, continuously sourcing add-on opportunities

Centre Lane Partners

May 2024 – Aug 2024

Private Equity Intern | Manhattan, New York

  • Lead the integration of iLevel into firm's private equity and credit operations, working directly with President and CFO
  • Developed an API via iLevel to digest, manipulate, and customize data integrations, programming in Python, Java, and C#
  • Employing: DCF, IRR, LBO, NPV, MOIC, Stress Testing, Precedent Transactions, Cap Rate Analysis, DSCR, SOTP

J & J Samuel Associates

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023

Investment Analyst Intern | Manhattan, New York

  • Conducted financial analysis for +30 commercial real estate acquisitions and developments
  • Led a comparative study across REITs, ETFs, and Private Equity investments, achieving 15% risk reduction
  • Executed a roll-up merger, consolidating six properties, achieving a 23.7% IRR and a 3.7x equity multiple
  • Actively managed portfolio performance, applying metrics to monitor market trends and assess valuations

Entrepreneurial Ventures

Syllabus-Sharing Web App

Sep 2024 – Present

Founder & Developer

  • Engineered a React.js web application leveraging JavaScript, JSX, HTML, and CSS to compress and store syllabi in an SQL database
  • Deployed on a Raspberry Pi 5 Kubernetes cluster, serving over 12,000 active users across 5 universities

OneCard | www.OneCardAI.com

Nov 2023 - Present

Founder

  • Pioneering a financial technology startup, targeting a +$130B market; recognized finalist in NY state business plan competition
  • Engineering a proprietary machine learning algorithm using Python, C++, and C#, enhancing processing efficiency by 70%
  • Leading a team of 8 to execute R&D and marketing strategies, achieving 40% increase in quarterly sales

Statistical Arbitrage Trading Model

Mar 2024 - Present

Quantitative Developer & Researcher

  • Developed a quantitative trading model using Python, CUDA, MATLAB, and R, deployed on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano
  • Engineered data pipelines to process financial datasets, compress through tokenization, and remove bias for backtesting
  • Applied to equities using machine learning and extensive Python libraries to improve Sharpe ratio

Education

Stony Brook University | Honors College

Bachelor of Science in Business Management

Graduated December 2024

  • Specialization in Finance
  • Key Courses: Quantitative Finance, Probability Theory, Financial Mathematics, Applied Linear Algebra, Computer Science

Harvard Business School

MBA-prep | Summer Venture in Management Program

Summer 2024 | 2% Acceptance Rate

Skills

technical

C/C++/C# Python R MATLAB SQL Java Tableau Excel Salesforce PowerPoint Bloomberg Terminal VBA

frameworks

React Next.js Node.js Express TailwindCSS Astro

tools

Git Docker Kubernetes AWS GCP Azure

languages

English (Native) Greek (Conversational)

Awards & Activities

Awards

  • New York Business Plan Competition Finalist
  • 1st in Stock Summit
  • Real Estate Institute Scholar
  • NYCB Scholar

Leadership

  • Investment Club President
  • College of Business DEI Committee Founding Member

Interests

Golf (VP of Golf Club) Spearfishing Astrophysics Rocket Modeling Chess Real Estate Football (Linebacker)