Jun 2022 – Feb 2023 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Led the development of pooled credit line and lender pool contracts, where lenders (either singly or in group) provide under-collateralized loans to a verified borrower.
• Solicited interest from 5 lenders (20% of total) through Discord events, rallying 50+ stakeholders to join.
• Achieved 100% security compliance by undergoing a Web3 audit amid rising security attacks.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India

• In an attempt to start up, tried several ideas across different domains (Details: https://learned-ping-1cd.notion.site/Starting-Up-8fee0b3124c54daea7311707a6278cf8).
• BNPL payments at offline stores via QR: Did market research, built pitch deck, demo video & applied to YC, left it due to concerns regarding revenue and regulations.
• Health social commerce platform: Talked to ∼50 dermatologists and nutritionists for partnerships, built an initial MVP mobile application, left it due to lack of FMF.
• Marketing Automation for DTC brands: Talked to ∼100 PMs to understand domain, decided to focus on D2C brands as GTM strategy, reached out to ∼40 DTC founders.

Jul 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Worked as a risk modeler for Interest Rate asset class in the Market Risk division.
• Managed ownership of several regulatory models, which were used for internal purposes and for fulfilling the requirements of Fed, Basel, European Union.
• Developed new IR stress test market scenarios to examine vulnerabilities of berms, exotic vol products to rates and volatility movements.

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Shifted Data Retriever's JSON script metadata to a separate project location to help with maintenance, and testing.
• Worked on overall improvements in the core application, and to enable using the latest version of JSON scripts metadata.
• Worked on the wrapper repositories based on R, and Julia to ensure compatibility with the new design changes.

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · India

• Interned as a Software Developer under the Amazon Fresh - Category Management group.
• Worked on the task of automatic synthesis of a large number of pipelines using Live Pipeline Templates (LPT) scripting.
• Made necessary design changes in the React Native and Spring MVC based frontend and backend applications.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 mo · India

• Worked towards improving the accuracy of 3D human pose estimation for images of squats and conditioning exercises.
• Read some research papers and performed re-training of a couple of them on images of strengthening exercises.
• Used PyTorch and TensorFlow as the software packages for all the experiments.

May 2018 – Jun 2018 · 1 mo · India

• Worked on the automatic colorization of low-resolution greyscale images using a Conditional DC-GAN.
• Used L2-Regularization along with Adversarial Loss to train the model which removed brown-ish hue and green patches.
• Utilized L*a*b* color space for minimization of color and brightness fluctuations in the resulting image.