Summary
Oleg Polakow is the creator and lead developer of VectorBT PRO with a decade of software engineering experience focused on Python, data science, machine learning, and trading. Based in the Greater Munich area, he combines rigorous academic training from TUM and DTU with a background in engineering physics to build high-performance, research-driven trading tools. He leads product and code development end-to-end, translating quantitative ideas into production-ready libraries and analytics. Oleg’s work emphasizes reproducible, data-centric tooling for algorithmic trading, and he maintains an active technical footprint on GitHub around Python and ML ecosystems. Known for bridging academic rigor with practical deployment, he brings both deep technical fluency and a trader’s sensitivity to performance and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Physics at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Technical University of Denmark