Jun 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• Creating educational content around the Indian Alternative Investment Market for Retail Investors.
• Blog: https://thealtinvestor.in
• YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ThALTInvestor
• WA Community: https://nas.io/the-alt-investors

Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

• Implementation on Aviva Investors Multi Strategy Target Return Funds (£3bn+ AUM)
• Did tons of cool automation with Python to trade complex strategies.
• Traded exotic instruments in emerging markets. Experience of a lifetime!

Jul 2022 – Dec 2022 · 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Assisting all Bloomberg RHUB clients with all things Reg Reporting.
• Regulations Covered: MiFIR, EMIR, SFTR
• Working with Tier 1 and Tier 2 banks helping them backload their incorrect transaction reports by building custom workflows and datasets using Python/SQL.
• Helping Product Managers build new data analytics tools and workflows which clients can proactively utilize to identify issues in their reporting.
• Worked on Products: Bloomberg RHUB, Bloomberg RegTek

Jun 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr

• Building Internal Products for Aviva Investors in Reg Reporting that makes it easier to solve challenging problems and saves costs.
• Managing 5 excellent colleagues and their performance.
• Some High Impact Projects That I Have Worked On:
• 1. Automating Message Generation for INTC Backloading via Aladdin and UnaVista Data, reducing the time taken by 80% and removing the need for extra hands-on resources.
• 2. Creating a Database to Have a copy of the latest transaction report we have submitted to the regulator, which gets updated daily; this helps us do various analyses on the latest data to ensure we send accurate reports to regulators.
• 3. Run general automated data accuracy checks on incoming Aladdin Data and make any corrections to the data before reaching the regulator.
• 4. Built In-House ESMA FIRDS, FCA FIRDS Instruments List Database to run Eligibility Checks against Reports for backloading and live reporting.
• 5. Helped in Automating various ad-hoc backloading projects (Missing Fills, Short Selling Flags, ISIN Eligibility), cutting down estimated time > 80%, and saving thousands of pounds.
• Tools Used: Python, SQL, UnaVista, Aladdin, MarketAxxes

Dec 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Daily duty of pre-trade checks and challenging the fund managers/traders on any compliance violations.
• Coding and Testing of Restrictions in Aladdin to identify false positives and solve any issues related to data while monitoring.
• Worked in launching regulated funds, detailed knowledge of COLL, CSSF, IRISH, and MMFR regulations.
• Setup training modules to onboard the teams in Singapore, Bangalore, Chicago
• Was responsible for consulting Product Experts on how to build regulatory compliant products while keeping clients' risk profile in mind.
• Worked with the Compliance Team and Ops Team to identify manual processes and explored avenues to automate them.
• Saved £500,000+ in costs via automation using Python and creating data pipelines.
• Served as a project lead for various other automation projects involving different tools (BluePrism, Qlik, NET)
• Created custom dashboards using Qlik for Business Intelligence Purposes.
• Worked on Data Science Opportunity to predict the classification of Post Trade Analysis done manually by the team.

Feb 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Curating a community around Algo-Trading in India.
• Curating Content for Angel Broking's SmartAPI on the SmartStore Platform.
• Building Strategy Based Execution Algos
• Creating Youtube Videos

Jun 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Sep 2015 – May 2016 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• KitabiTukda’s core offering was to facilitate purchasing educational textbooks chapter-wise.
• Hired and managed a team of 5 people directly.
• Actively discussed the Product, Marketing, Finance, Technology, and Design side to bring out the perfect product.

Jul 2015 – Aug 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Super was a unique product that was in the business of disrupting the job market. Their goal was to make hiring very easy for recruiters and applying very simple for job-seekers.
• The role was to ensure all the data related to the new onboarded company was correctly entered into the backend software and displayed on the app.

Feb 2015 – Jul 2015 · 5 mos · Bombay Stock Exchange,Dalal Street, Fort, Mumbai (India's Financial Capital)

• Learnt many new things regarding the global macro and microeconomic indicators and the working of the financial system.
• Interacted with hundreds of startups for potential mentoring and funding opportunities by Jhunjhunwalas Finance.
• Working at Dalal Street and meeting hundreds of stockbrokers shaped the majority of my future career path.