Severin Bratus
s.v.bratus@proton.me | GitHub➚ | LinkedIn➚ | severinbratus.github.io/cv➚
Education
ETH Zürich, MSc Data Science (ongoing) Sep 2024 – Jun 2026*
- Awarded the Estonian Students’ Fund scholarship
TU Delft, BSc Computer Science and Engineering Sep 2021 – Jun 2024
- Graduated cum laude with GPA 8.5 (top 10% by Dutch grading)
- Specialized in Data, with a minor in Mathematical Finance
- Honours programme with coursework in Neuroscience
Experience
Teaching Assistant in Hands-On Deep Learning with PyTorch | ETH Zürich Feb 2025 – Dec 2025*
Assistant in AI Reasoning Research | Giotto.ai➚ Feb 2025 – Sep 2025*
Teaching Assistant, Software Engineer | TU Delft, TeachBooks➚ Feb 2024 – Dec 2024
- Assisted in the MSc module Modeling, Uncertainty & Data for Engineers at the Civil Eng. & GeoSc. faculty.
- Developed custom GitHub Actions workflows to deploy course-related books on the web.
Intern in Advanced Analytics & NLP | Van Lanschot Kempen Dec 2023 – Jan 2024
- Worked on applications of natural language processing in Non-Financial Risk Analytics.
Head Teaching Assistant in Data Mining | TU Delft Nov 2023 – Feb 2024
- Assisted students and fellow TAs with questions on lab sessions.
- Assisted the course instructors in making the lab assignment rubrics and reference solutions.
- Managed communication channels, and composed weekly FAQ reports.
Software Engineer, “Chief Hacking Officer” | DuckDuckGoose AI➚ Jun 2022 – Mar 2023
- Designed, built, and maintained an ML data collection pipeline via task automation and reverse-engineering.
- Implemented, tested and documented modifications in the main software-as-a-service API of the company.
- Worked on penetration-testing camera-based ID verification in mobile apps (e.g. banking apps).
Research projects
Generalisation Ability of Proper Value Equivalent Models in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning | Link➚ TU Delft | Jun 2024
- BSc thesis, graded 9.0 / 10.0
Gender stereotypes in Estonian word embeddings | Poster➚ May 2020
- Received awards from:
- Estonian National Contest for Young Scientists 2021 (III place)
- Institute of the Estonian Language
- Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Ministry of Social Affairs
Events
ETH Datathon 2025 II place Apr 2025
Human Aligned AI Summer School Prague, Czechia | Jul 2025
Skills
- Python, PyTorch
- C, C++
- Linux, Bash, Git
- Java, Clojure
- TypeScript
- Julia
- SQL
- Web scraping
- Apache Spark & Flink
Coursework team projects
Software Project: Enhancing LaplaceRedux.jl, a Julia package for Bayesian Deep Learning | Medium Article➚ Apr – Jun 2023
Software Engineering Methods: A microservice-based HR management system in Java Nov – Dec 2022
Computer Graphics: A ray-casting rendering engine in C++ with OpenGL Oct 2022
Personal projects
Linux UVCVideo with Record/Replay Modes | GitHub➚ 2024
- Modifications to a Linux webcam driver to record & replay raw frames
Cheat Chess | GitHub➚ 2022
- A multiplayer chess web-app. Includes a fog-of-war chess variant
Volunteering
EU Contest for Young Scientists ‘22 Leiden, Netherlands | Sep 2022
EU Contest for Young Scientists ‘23 Bruxelles, Belgium | Sep 2023
TU Delft Book Club ‘23–‘24 Sep 2023 – Jun 2024
Membership in clubs
Delft AI Safety Initiative➚ Nov 2023 – Jun 2024
Delft Writing Club Oct 2023 – Jun 2024
Languages
- English Fluent, C1
- Estonian Fluent
- Russian Native
Citizenship
- Republic of Estonia, EU