Resume
Samuel Katsaros
Professional Experience
Augr Inc.
Aug 2023 – PresentSenior 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 2024Private 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 2023Investment 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 – PresentFounder & 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 - PresentFounder
- 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 - PresentQuantitative 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)