Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · Hybrid

• QXO is the largest publicly traded distributor of roofing, waterproofing, and complementary building products in the United States. The company plans to become the tech-enabled leader in the $800 billion building products distribution industry and generate outsized value for shareholders. QXO is targeting $50 billion in annual revenues within the next decade through accretive acquisitions and organic growth. Visit www.qxo.com for more information.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

• CX Score is a well-funded Enterprise AI startup. Our products optimize marketing campaigns for a variety of companies, big and small. This is enabled through our proprietary AI capabilities for creating improved impressions, clicks and conversions at low cost by deeply understanding customer behavior and characteristics.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• ICME is Stanford’s interdisciplinary department for Applied Mathematics. My research focus is A.I. for Sequential Optimal Decisioning under Uncertainty, particularly Reinforcement Learning algorithms. One of my key responsibilities is to direct Stanford's Mathematical & Computational Finance (MCF) program. In the Winter quarter, I teach the course CME 241 (Foundations of Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Finance), where I blend together Mathematics/Theory, Algorithms/Programming, and Financial Trading. In other quarters, I engage in research and serve as a technical mentor and career advisor to many of our students. My book on RL is at: https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Reinforcement-Learning-Applications-Finance/dp/1032124121. Over the past three years, I have also been a teaching faculty at our Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), evangelizing AI to our Retail company affiliates from around the world.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 · 6 yrs · Sunnyvale, CA

• Led the Data Science and AI team that developed products for Demand Forecasting, Supply-Chain, Merchandising, Pricing, Personalization, Recommendations, Search and Marketing.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Mountain View, CA

• ZLemma built software products that enabled recruiters and hiring managers to find the precise talent they want to hire in an efficient manner. ZLemma's products were grounded in powerful, pioneering algorithms my team (25 engineers) and I developed for jobs-talent matching and for resumes/jobs parsing. Raised $3.5M series A financing Summer 2013 and got acquired Fall 2015.
• Although I wore several hats (Product Management, Math Modeling, Coding, Marketing, Sales, Fundraising), I centered myself in the design and development of ZLemma's product offering. My key learning from ZLemma was that customer conversations are as vital to the development of one's product as the engineering/design that creates the product.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs · New York, London & Mumbai

• Quant Trading Strategies, Pricing, Risk Management, Derivatives Modeling, Econometric Modeling for a variety of rates, mortgages and credit trading businesses on the New York and London trading desks.
• Moved to Mumbai for family reasons, founded and grew the Mumbai Modeling/Quant team, and co-headed the already-established organization of 1000+ technologists in the Mumbai office. This experience led me to tech entrepreneurship, although it was very difficult leaving Morgan Stanley - a company full of wonderful people.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2008 · 10 yrs · New York, NY

• Mortgage Pass-Throughs, Interest Rate Derivatives, Rates Flow Products, Mortgage Rate Derivatives (CMM), Mortgage Credit Derivatives (Subprime CDS, CDO^n) - Trading Strategies, Pricing, Risk Management.
• My favorite memories involve the creation of new mortgage derivatives trading businesses - I learnt a hell of a lot from a diverse range of highly talented colleagues (erstwhile 85 Broad, 26th Floor trading desk nostalgia!)