Ravi Kant Mittal, CFA

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Led global engineering teams across multiple countries.
  • Successfully built and managed quant teams from scratch.
  • Expert in automating financial processes and data analysis.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on data analysis and engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial ServicesData ScienceFinancial Markets

Other Skills

Data AnalysisProgrammingFinancial AnalysisTeam LeadershipFactor AnalysisAlgorithmsProbabilityPython (Programming Language)

About

Experienced in leading global engineering teams across investment and payment industry. Managed multiple teams across Singapore, Japan & India. Have also experience in successfully building, growing and leading quant teams across Trading and Equity research businesses. Developed strong leadership skills through building a successful aquant team for equity research from scratch, and managing multiple quant dev and engineering groups in current role.

Experience

Stripe

2 roles

Board Director - Stripe India

Promoted

Dec 2025Present · 3 mos

  • Director on the Boards of Stripe India Pvt Ltd & Stripe Technology (India) Pvt Ltd.

Engineering Lead, Accounting Products

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Building Accounting platform that automates accrual accounting for high-growth businesses — simplifying revenue recognition, ensuring accuracy and compliance, providing real-time insights, and accelerating month-end close.

Peekstreets

Founder

Apr 2024Dec 2024 · 8 mos

  • Revolutionizing investment research through data-driven intelligence and smart insights. Stay tuned for more updates.

Slice

Head of UPI engineering

Jan 2023Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Led the UPI product vertical, responsible for managing UPI onboarding, transactions, and integration with NPCI processing 5M users and a daily transaction volume of 200K.
  • Managed the end-to-end delivery of the UPI product and UPI switch from scratch, leading to improved success rates and reduced transaction speed.
  • Spearheaded engineering hiring across the slice, where I created hiring runbooks for both management and IC hiring and conducted more than 100 interviews.

Stripe

Head of Global Card Authentication

Jul 2022Dec 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked as an Engineering Leader for Authentication for global card networks processing ~$4B monthly payment volume.
  • My teams owned, built, and maintained all core authentication platforms (3DS 1, 3DS 2, Strong Customer Authentication) and Stripe in-house authentication products like Delegated Authentication (1-click), 3DS Standalone & 3DS Import.

The d. e. shaw group

Senior Manager, Macro Front Office Strats

Jun 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Managed two groups within Macro Front Office Tech involved in providing quant and data platform to Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, and Economic traders.
  • Led Quant Dev initiatives, infrastructure development for Trading and Portfolio management, and Data Analytics projects.
  • Led architecture decisions, project planning, and stakeholder management for various strategic projects and tactical data analytics projects.

Worldquant

Vice President, Deep Research

May 2019Apr 2020 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked on a strategic initiative at WorldQuant - generated high OS-IS quant strategies with strong fundamental hypotheses.
  • Built quant models for long-short stat-arb strategies using fundamental data and insights from various research sell-side firms.
  • Focused on using Macro data to find Macro to micro strategies in US markets, starting with the Financial sector.

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Vice President, Quant Strategy, Equity Research

Promoted

Jan 2016Apr 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Founding member and lead of the data strategy team for GS Investment Research, systematizing datasets for both external and internal research.
  • Collaborated with Hong Kong and Japan equity research teams, developing long-short strategies based on fundamental and technical factors.
  • Led a division-wide Python training for over 100 analysts globally and facilitated the initiation of 50 analyst Python projects.

Analyst, Ops Strats

Jul 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Managed a team of 5 strats working on Data Analytics projects in Securities Operations.
  • Implemented CAST, a firm-wide platform utilizing J48 decision trees and association rule mining to analyze big data and identify root causes.
  • Created and led the Quantitative Risk Quotient Modelling (qRQ) program, focusing on developing risk quantification models to mitigate operations risk.

Inria

Summer Intern

May 2012Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area · On-site

  • Implemented detection and localization of active speakers in a humanoid robot using four microphones and two cameras. Fusion of visual reconstruction and sound-source localization enabled seamless human-robot interactions.
  • Received media attention from French TV, France 3, and INRIA.

Netapp

Summer Intern

May 2011Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Designed and implemented an online performance diagnostic workflow for NetApp storage system issues. Developed a drill-down approach utilizing latency, throughput, and utilization data, and integrated Google Web Toolkit UI library for the interface and NetApp Web framework for data collection and analysis.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

B.Tech In Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Information and Communication

Jan 2008Jan 2013

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