Sasikanth N, CFA

CEO

United States14 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Achieved $2bn in annual lending volumes.
Optimized to save $20 million+ in costs.
Launched 18 new markets with $7bn+ trading volume.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong analytics and risk management capabilities.

Contact

sasikanth@iit-bayarea.org LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Prime BrokerageRisk ManagementLeadershipFinancial EducationProduct StrategyMarket StrategyData EngineeringData ScienceData AnalysisInsurance SolutionsBusiness Intelligence Tools

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)AnalysisAnalytical SkillsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Asset AllocationAttribution ModelingBusiness AnalysisBusiness Insights And RecommendationsBusiness StrategyCapital MarketsCatastrophe ModelingClusteringCommunicationCredit Risk ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership

About

Empathetic, Collaborative and Outcome focused analytics leader working within the Financial and FinTech domain, helping product teams to realize unexplored value chains with new or existing products. My work so far in Product Risk and Strategy teams helped uncover new pricing and explore monetization channels for FinTech products (Lending, Credit, Payments etc.) to achieve $2bn in annual lending volumes and optimizing to save $20mil+ costs. Possess a strong acumen for identifying business opportunities, driving business impact and developing innovative solutions using data driven decisions while leveraging my deep understanding of analytics frameworks, statistical models, machine learning methods and effective communication to ship product features to capture new markets. Feel very comfortable dealing with numbers and identify trends quickly, something that stayed with me since a young age. Interests: Product Monetization, Growth Analytics, Business Intelligence, Stakeholder Management, Analytics Frameworks, Building ML solutions, Pricing & Strategy, Quantitative Modeling

Experience

Go prime

Head of Prime Risk - Trading, Credit and Derivatives

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

Building prime brokerage services for institutional clients helping serve more than $100bn assets on platform (AoP)
Financial Risk officer overseeing Lending, Trading, Liquidity & Credit risk across Prime OTC & Platform services.
Work with C-Suite executives to align business development and growth opportunities while prudent about managing risks across the custody, staking and financing solutions.

Prime BrokerageLendingCredit Risk ManagementRisk EngineeringCross-functional Team LeadershipStakeholder Management+1

Backpack exchange

Head of Risk Products - Crypto Spot and Derivatives

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · United States · Remote

As the first risk hire within firm, help overlook the entire trading risk management activity for the existing exchange products and soon to be launched derivative products.
Lead product risk strategy by closely working with developers to outline risk functionalities, platform features for handling account liquidation, exchange solvency risks and insurance fund set-up for helping backstop liquidity providers (market-makers).
Analyze market risk analytics, coin volatility, order book depth to be used for adjusting risk, collateral and lending curves for managing account level leverage.
Helped launch 18 new perp markets and 20+ spot markets for our public beta campaign, which led to $7bn+ in trading volume within the first six weeks along with 47000+ unique traders.

Risk EngineeringProduct StrategyDigital AssetsDerivativesPython (Programming Language)Risk Management

Iit bay area alumni association

Community Founder - Finance Club (500+ Members)

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Founded the Finance Club as part of the IIT Bay Area Alumni Association. 460+ members and growing!
Organize Knowledge Sharing Sessions.
Invite industry professionals for speaker events
Help promote financial education
Empower non-finance professionals to make better financial decisions.

LeadershipCapital MarketsInvestmentsFinancial Education

Stripe

Product Risk & Strategy - Payments & Treasury

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · New York, United States · Hybrid

As part of the Product Risk and Strategy, I help build and ship new FX products features to help drive revenue strategy with risk management embedded at it's core.
Developed risk pricing framework for multiple currency checkout products and hedging mechanism to manage the non-G10 currency risks.

FinTechAmazon Web Services (AWS)Stakeholder ManagementProduct StrategyPython (Programming Language)Pricing Analysis+2

Blockfi

Manager, Risk Decision Science - Lending Products

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr · New York City Metropolitan Area

Working on building hedging strategies for the firm's lending portfolio with more than $2bn loan volume originated.
Lead the risk and data engineering team to productionize frameworks for risk reporting and analytics to senior executive teams.

Market RiskFinTechBusiness Intelligence ToolsPython (Programming Language)Product StrategyAnalytical Skills+2

Franklin templeton

Senior Risk Data Scientist - Credit Portfolio

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

Risk Management/ Stress Testing: Actively monitor the risk profile of U.S Core Plus mandate portfolios (more than $30 billion AUM) invested in Currency Forwards, Futures, Interest Rate Swaps and Treasury options etc.
Developed a Stress Testing tool for propagating the selective risk factor shocks to a cluster of factors stress testing portfolios with >$25 billion in assets and hedge against the left tail events.

Business Intelligence ToolsCapital MarketsPython (Programming Language)Cross-team CollaborationFinancial ModelingQuantitative Analytics+3

Swiss re

Advanced Analytics Manager - Insurance Products

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Part of corporate solutions entity of Swiss Re, which deals with insurance of large commercial businesses (single and multi risk) globally.
Some of my key responsibilities included:
Performed portfolio analysis every month and scrutinized the underperforming accounts to lower the portfolio losses by 20% annually on 900mil portfolio size.
Develop analysis tools for pricing parametric insurance products for risk transfer on catastrophe event losses globally.

Business Intelligence ToolsPython (Programming Language)Data AnalysisInsurance Solutions

Aon benfield

Quant Research Analyst - Insurance Solutions

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

Provided catastrophe model development support as part of the Asia-Pacific team.
Commercialize the first insurance solution for $50bn insurance market in Thailand and nearby regions.
Analyzed weather data for 12 US states using Generalized Linear Models (GLM) to determine insurance premium rates for Auto Insurance Clients.

Business Intelligence ToolsPython (Programming Language)