Ashwin Raghavan — CEO
Formerly a founding engineer and product manager at PhonePe (India's largest digital payments platform), where I helped build backend systems and growth products as the platform scaled from 0 to a 100M+ users. In 2022 I left tech to trade equities, commodities, futures, and options full-time in the Indian market with my own capital. In the ensuing 2 years, I lost my entire trading capital almost twice before finally turning profitable towards the end of 2024. In 2025 I joined the US Investing Championship late and finished 5th worldwide in the Money Manager Verified Ratings Enhanced Growth Division ($1M+ real money accounts) with a 75% return over the final ~2.5 months. The verified trade book of my publicly shared account has consistently ranked among the most profitable on Sensibull, India’s largest futures and options trading platform. I write about markets, trades, and what I’m learning on X @GripFangWolf and occasionally at ashwinraghavan.substack.com. I have also appeared on podcasts with some of India's largest trading focused YouTube channels like Finance with Sharan, Elearnmarkets, VivekBajaj and TradingwithGroww. Collectively these videos have amassed ~400k views. Outside of work I enjoy playing football and have maintained some kind of connection with sports throughout my life. In my schooling days, I represented the state of Maharashtra at the ICSE national level in track and field events. More recently I got certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and a PAI P3 Paraglider. I've had a fairly circuitous route to where I am and am happy to connect with folks at different stages of figuring out their own journeys. And I would love to talk to deeply curious individuals working on hard problems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Trading expert with strong software engineering and product management skills.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 9 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Equity Trading
- Technical Analysis
- Quantitative Trading
- Product Management
- Software Engineering
- Software Development
Career Highlights
- Achieved 5th place in US Investing Championship 2025
- Consistently ranked among top traders on Sensibull
- Former founding engineer at PhonePe
Work Experience
True Beacon
Investment Research - Quant (1 mo)
Self-employed
Equity and Commodity Derivatives Trader (3 yrs 9 mos)
Career Break
Health and well-being (9 mos)
PhonePe
Product Manager (2 yrs 11 mos)
Software Engineer (2 yrs 9 mos)
Quality Council of India
Chairman's Office (1 mo)
Flipkart
Software Development Intern (5 mos)
MAQ Software
Software Engineering Intern (2 mos)
Phyzok Learning Solutions
Summer Intern (1 mo)
Education
Bachelor’s Degree at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
High School at Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane