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Ashwin Raghavan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 5th place in US Investing Championship 2025
  • Consistently ranked among top traders on Sensibull
  • Former founding engineer at PhonePe
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Trading expert with strong software engineering and product management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Equity TradingTechnical AnalysisQuantitative TradingProduct ManagementSoftware EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

Equities tradingCommodity tradingFutures tradingOptions tradingPerformance analysisTrading strategyPerformance trackingQuantitative analysisData pipeline developmentUser acquisitionBusiness growthBackend developmentSystem architectureTransaction managementDemand-supply analysis

About

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.

Experience

9 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

True beacon

Investment Research - Quant

Sep 2022Oct 2022 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built a robust tech pipeline to analyze historical market data for quantitative trading strategies.
Quantitative analysisData pipeline developmentQuantitative Trading

Self-employed

Equity and Commodity Derivatives Trader

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Technical analyst with a basic understanding of fundamentals. Developed and executed profitable long/short strategies across equities, commodities, futures, and options.
  • I stood 5th worldwide in the Money Manager Verified Ratings Enhanced Growth Division (min. million dollar accounts) of the US Investing Championship, 2025. I joined the competition late and was able to generate a 75% return over the last 2.5 months of a competition that ran over an entire calendar year.
  • I openly share the verified PnL figures of one of my trading accounts (> $1 Million size). It is consistently ranked among the top 10 most profitable verified accounts on Sensibull, India’s largest futures and options trading platform - https://web.sensibull.com/verified-pnl/hall-of-fame?days_shared=360
  • Have cumulatively achieved 4 digit percentage returns in all of the accounts I manage since I started trading in 2022. The largest, an 9 figure ₹ account (7 figure $ account), once had a 900% return over a 365 day period when the benchmark Indian index, Nifty, was down ~3%
  • I only trade my own accounts and do not - manage external funds, offer any paid advisory, or run any sort of paid coaching/educational service.
Technical analysisEquities tradingCommodity tradingFutures tradingOptions tradingEquity Trading+1

Career break

Health and well-being

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos

  • Burnt out. Took a break to save me, from myself.. 🥲

Phonepe

2 roles

Product Manager

Apr 2019Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • PM for incentive products at PhonePe. Managed the suite of products that drove user acquisition, business growth, and funnel conversion improvements using direct and indirect monetary incentives for a platform processing billions of monthly transactions.
Product managementUser acquisitionBusiness growthProduct Management

Software Engineer

Aug 2016May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Key contributor to the backend platform team during PhonePe’s hyper growth phase as it became India’s leading digital payments app. Joined the company before the app launched when it was still ~30 members strong. Developed systems to manage merchant settlements, book keep, and orchestrate complex fund flows for millions of daily transactions as an engineer with the accounting platform team.
Backend developmentSystem architectureTransaction managementSoftware Engineering

Quality council of india

Chairman's Office

Jul 2016Aug 2016 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

  • Conducted demand-supply analysis of teacher availability across five Indian states (Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Sikkim) in collaboration with the National Council For Teacher Education (NCTE) while interning with the Chairman's office at the Quality Council of India.
Demand-supply analysis

Flipkart

Software Development Intern

Jul 2015Dec 2015 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Independently developed an Android application to enhance employee engagement; received an offer to join full-time post the internship.
Android developmentEmployee engagementSoftware Development

Maq software

Software Engineering Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Developed a C# Console based application (Pre-Authoring Content Tool) to automate the communication between over 10,000 pages on a SharePoint server and corresponding Excel sheets on local servers.
C# developmentAutomationSoftware Development

Phyzok learning solutions

Summer Intern

Jun 2013Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Content development, video editing, teaching, and website development at a nascent start-up in the ed tech domain. The product was primarily aimed at high school students.
Content developmentVideo editingWebsite development

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2016

Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane

High School

Jan 2000Jan 2011

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