Štěpán Vácha
Quant Engineering Manager in Prague, Czech Republic
Profile
Combining technical and quantitative background with management skills, I have grown with Oddin.gg from analyst to multi-team engineering manager over more than six years. I'm currently focusing on scaling the teams, navigating them through AI shifts, and combining high-quality mathematical research with fast delivery and business needs. I value honesty, curiosity, and hard work while believing that the best job is achieved when people enjoy what they are doing.
Experience
Oddin.gg
Apr 2020 – Present
Prague, Czech Republic
Provider of esports odds feeds, risk management, iFrame solutions and infrastructure for sportsbooks.
Quant Engineering Manager
Apr 2025 – Present
- Leading teams of quants, mathematicians and Python developers responsible for predictive mathematical models and their end-to-end implementation.
- Focusing on hiring, planning, delivery and day-to-day operations across nine projects and products.
- Grew the headcount from 3 to 11 people while staying hands-on on the technical level with active code reviews, software development and decision making.
Quant / Python Developer / Data Engineer
Jul 2021 – Mar 2025
- Data processing, data analysis, model validation and software development; designed and built data solutions from scratch and implemented quantitative models.
- Scaled automated data pipelines for real-time processing and took ownership over full bet tickets data flow.
- Supported the creation of a specialised risk management team with tailored and automated data processing, datasets and a warehouse solution.
Esports Trader & Analyst
Apr 2020 – Jun 2021
- First person in the company to analyze bet tickets, building the tools and data processing for better understanding of our models' and trading performance.
Education
MSc Quantitative Finance · WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)
Sep 2021 – Sep 2023
Vienna, Austria
- Courses in Mathematics, Probability, Optimization, Continuous Time Finance and Asset Pricing.
BSc (Hons) Economics · University of Warwick
Oct 2018 – Jul 2021
Coventry, United Kingdom
- First Class result, with an award-winning final year project.
- Focus on Econometrics, Statistics, Applied Economics and Programming.
Tech skills
AI tools (LLMs, coding agents) · Python · SQL (including DB migrations) · Git (and Github Actions) · AWS (ECS, Athena, S3, Cloudwatch) · Docker · Grafana · Terraform
Languages
Czech (native) · English (fluent) · German (B2) · Spanish (A2)