Rahul Sekar

Co-Founder at MyShubhLife, hiring smart people @ MyShubhLife

About

Building the next generation technology & analytics platform to bring responsible credit to the underserved. Enabling the team at MyShubhLife execute their innovative ideas and solve the credit problem in India. Hands-on leader managing Software Development, Product Management & Finance functions. Director at Ekagrata Finance, a fully owned NBFC subsidiary. 13+ years experience in Finance & Technology. Built and lead various teams at Goldman Sachs in the areas of Algorithmic Trading, Derivative Pricing, Quantitative Investments, Risk & Attribution Models, Realtime analytics on large datasets. Competitive programmer, represented India at various international events. Graduated from IIT Madras with a Bachelors in Technology.

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Equity Research, Derivatives, Equities, Fixed Income, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Financial Modeling, Valuation, Bloomberg, Analysis, C++, Financial Analysis, Analytics, Python, Java, SQL, Data Analysis, Project Management, Management

Experience

Co Founder & CTO

MyShubhLife

2016-6 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Enabling responsible credit to the underserved. Developing the business from an idea to serving over 2mn users. Secured multiple rounds of funding from marquee angel investors & venture capitals. Building an agile, micro-service based technology platform on AWS. A small team of engineers built the android app with 2mn+ downloads and web dashboards used by 500+ internal and external users. Serverless technology stack on Python, Java, MongoDB, React and Android. Nurturing young developers to become 10x engineers and leaders. Assembled a strong team of data scientists to understand and monitor the sales funnels, user behaviour, credit worthiness, portfolio risk and operational metrics. Interactive self-service dashboards to review nuanced business & operational dynamics. Alternate data based credit scoring model to serve thin-file borrowers. Overseeing Finance & Accounting.

Director

Ekagrata Finance

2019-4 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building the RBI registered Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) to bring financial services to The Next Billion people.

Advisor

OctavesOnline.com

2016-6 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

Online platform for learning Indian music (Carnatic and Hindustani). Guiding the team to organically grow the subscriptions and build the brand. Helped produce over 450 free videos for the YouTube channel. Built a low-cost low-maintenance technology platform for enabling online classes, attendance and payments management. Firebase application with Firestore, Functions and Hosting (Angular 5). Payments via Razorpay and PayPal.

Vice President - Asset Management

Goldman Sachs

2014-1 - 2016-5 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Hired & managed a stellar team of quant-engineers (Strats) for the Asset Management division (GSAM) in Bengaluru. Oversaw recruiting activities at top tier institutes like IITs & IIMs. Oversaw the development of portfolio investment & risk models for Quantitative Investments and Fixed Income businesses. Worked in Investment Grade Credit on factor models. Built solutions for large data problems. In-memory relational databases & interactive reports on portfolio positions & risk. Assembled & managed a cross-divisional team to ideate and organise the first few editions of GsQuantify, a yearly quant hackathon to increase engagement with engineering students.

Associate - Asset Management

Goldman Sachs

2012-1 - 2013-12 · 2 yrs

Smart beta strategies - research and development. MC pricing engine and SSE optimised random number generators.

Analyst - Core Quantitative Strategies

Goldman Sachs

2008-7 - 2011-12 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Stochastic control and trading strategies for large order executions. PDE & Monte Carlo solvers. Derivative pricing models & engines. Equity & interest rate derivatives.