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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Owning end-to-end utility bill payment product of Simpl called BillBox

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Unnati was India's 1st GST Filing App for 15 million GST registered businesses ranging from e-commerce sellers, freelancers to local mom-and-pop stores. We were changing the way how GST filing was being done in India and removing the fear around it.Here I:- Launched India’s 1st GST filing app for MSMEs, achieving 25,000 installs in 6 months while managing a 10-member cross-functional team (social media, engineering, sales, support and operations).- Crafted an intuitive user experience tailored to E-commerce sellers’ GST return filing needs, driving an MAU of 500.- Achieved 200+ paid users upon cohort maturity, demonstrating conversion rates >2% of total installs in that period.- Delivered exceptional Month 4 retention rates, surpassing 40% of active users from Month 1, despite the introduction of a paywall after Month 3.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Solved consumer's chicken and egg problem of credit by helping them build a credit score without a credit card or loan. We helped them by converting their existing expenses into creditworthy payments and report it to the bureau without hampering their cashflow.Here I:- Led product development and partnerships across NBFCs and BBPS integrations focused on enhancing users' credit scores and histories.- Scaled the product to 50,000 installs and facilitated INR 11 Cr worth of total payments.- Leveraged gamification strategies during the beta phase, resulting in 70% engagement and 30% of users acquired through referrals, showcasing early adoption and virality.We were backed by Titan Capital and Samyakth Capital.

Bengaluru Area, India

AirTap was a card-less credit system for the next billion users. It made every smartphone a credit card and every UPI QR code a POS device. India has 62M credit cards currently. Only 1% of the 450M strong working class is being formally served by the banks' credit system. India's lower middle class makes 80% of the population, and is joining the digital economy faster than ever. This consumer is digitally literate, but is largely making a first generation entry to the financial services world. AirTap's mission was to build a marketplace of financial products and services for this 99% population on top of their purchase financing data.Here I:- Directed product development, merchant partnerships and established the groundwork for the credit model.- Formulated a social underwriting model driven by the hypothesis that "good users cluster together, as do bad users."- Achieved an almost 0 CAC for 100 daily active users (DAU) in 3 months.- Secured pre-seed funding from Titan Capital and Samyakth Capital.

Bangalore

I was Market Risk Strat here and worked on Interest Rate risk models for 2 years.Expertise:- Interest Rate Curves construction and shocking methodologies.- The go-to person in the division for scenario generation and its framework, even though I was responsible only for the modeling, I was proficient in both the technology and modeling aspects of it.- Interest Rate stress test models, part of a 2 member team that rewrote all interest rate risk models using market data APIs saving the risk division $10mn annually. I was responsible for modeling all stress test models according to countries, currencies and different risk factors in collaboration with the Securities Division of the firm.

Varanasi Area, India

Varanasi

Teacher's Assistant for CSO-101 (Institute Course in C, Basics of Computers, etc.), Odd semester, 2015 -16

Hyderabad

Research oriented internship focusing Quality of Cloud ServicesMethods used: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Super efficiency DEA, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) and fuzzy TOPSIS.Work on DEA and SDEA acknowledged in the research paper: Jatoth, C., Gangadharan, G. R., & Fiore, U. (2016). Evaluating the efficiency of cloud services using modified data envelopment analysis and modified super-efficiency data envelopment analysis. Soft Computing, 1-14.

-> Analysis of B2B (Business to Business) Marketing in detail.-> Analysis of Purchase intentions and attitude towards luxury brands in india• Learnt and applied skills of basic marketing concepts and market research methods (e.g. ANOVA, regression analysis, survey design).• Designed and conducted a survey to measure purchase intention, need for status, qualityperception, and perceived cost of products with variations in "Logo Size" on the products.

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Integrated Dual Degree, Computer Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: Indian Music Club, Programming Club, Entrepreneurship Cell

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Activities and Societies: Quiz Team, Cultural Team