Experience
Around five years in banking technology: from building a loan origination system as an engineer to owning the AI roadmap for one as a product manager.
Professional Timeline
- Own the AI product roadmap for the lending platform: identifying credit and operations workflows where AI removes manual effort, defining requirements with credit and risk stakeholders, and sequencing the build.
- Designed and launched four AI capabilities into live lending workflows (CAM Automation, Bank Statement Analyzer, Financial Statement Reader, Document Analyzer), each with PII-risk handling built into the data flow.
- Architected an end-to-end straight-through-processing journey for existing-to-bank customers across multiple product nuances, targeting a 90% TAT reduction.
- Leading a USD 1M+ engagement end-to-end: requirements gathering, solution architecture and Agile delivery.
- Integrated the platform's first AI components into production lending workflows: CAM automation, AI BSA for automated financial spreading and borrower analysis, and an AI chatbot for natural-language querying of loan data and policy guidelines.
- Closed a USD 1M+ deal end-to-end, independently leading proposal authoring, product demos, stakeholder meetings and onsite presentations to client leadership through to signed contract. The largest single deal won in this tenure.
- Led a team of 5 across 5 concurrent end-to-end LOS implementations for global clients valued at USD 1M+, owning scope, budget and timelines to achieve on-time go-lives.
- Architected a Report Generator module with API integrations, model formulation and parameterisation to automate MSME credit underwriting workflows.
- Spearheaded standardisation and a UX revamp of the LOS through continuous user research and workshops, targeting 20% TAT reduction and 30% faster implementations.
- Ideated and formulated a Loan Collections module for a global client and converted the idea to a signed deal within two months.
- Authored 15+ proposals across LOS, Mobile LOS, Collections and Collateral Management, representing a USD 7M+ pipeline.
- Led pre-sales discovery workshops with CXOs and functional heads across India, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, drafting customised credit appraisal transformation solutions.
- Delivered UI/UX upgrades targeting 15% faster loan decision turnaround and upgraded the digital onboarding channel to cut clicks-to-complete by 30%.
- Delivered training, hyper-care and handover artefacts (FSDs, SOPs, user manuals, video walkthroughs) enabling over 95% task self-service by client operations teams within 30 days of go-live.
- Built and enhanced FinnOne Neo, Nucleus' customer acquisition system covering the full lending lifecycle from lead generation to disbursement, for a Middle Eastern banking client.
- Led 5 engineers through Agile delivery of 10+ major product customisations aligned to banking requirements.
- Built a digital parsing solution for loan application migration between data formats (95% faster) and a script migration tool that cut data migration from one day to ten minutes.
- Automated code debugging through a custom UI tool, cutting development time 90%; transformed the code-review system impacting 1,000+ employees.
- Architected a three-tier environment structure (Local, Smoke, Quality), reducing performance defects 70%; standardised development templates cut developer idle time 90%.
- Presented product insights and customisation proposals to CXO-level stakeholders at cross-border banking clients.
Defined the IT vision for a debt collection product, built the product architecture to enhance UX, and designed a data enrichment engine that improved decision accuracy.
Built a business portal to digitise customer order processing, targeting an 80% reduction in order processing time.
Academic Background
PGPM — Information Management
S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai
B.E. — Electrical & Electronics Engineering
BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus · Pre-Placement Offer from Nucleus Software · AIR 5,240 in JEE Advanced
- Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I), Scrum.org
- Star of Quarter, two consecutive quarters, Care Analytics
- Four consecutive above-average appraisals, CareEdge Analytics and Advisory and Nucleus Software Exports
- SPOT Award, Nucleus Software, for transforming the code-review process across 1,000+ employees
- Most Innovative Team, NSEL Annual Ceremony, for cross-border project implementation
- AIR 5,240 in JEE Advanced, top 0.5 percentile of 1.2M+ applicants
- Founded and scaled a multi-cuisine café: ₹2.5L+ revenue in four months
AI Product
AI Product Roadmap & Prioritisation · AI Use-Case Discovery · Document Intelligence & Extraction · Conversational Interfaces · Underwriting Automation · PII & Data-Risk Handling · AI Integration into Core Platforms
Product Management
Product Lifecycle · Feature Scoping & MVP Definition · BRD / FSD Authoring · Go-to-Market · Agile / Scrum (PSPO I) · Design Thinking · User Research · Stakeholder Management · Executive Communication · Pre-Sales
Banking & Lending
Loan Origination Systems · Business Rule Engine & Credit Decisioning · MSME & SME Credit Underwriting · Credit Appraisal · Collections · Digital Onboarding · KYC / KYB · Collateral Management · Lead-to-Disbursement Lifecycle
Technical
API Integration · System Architecture · Data Modelling · Python · SQL / RDBMS · Core Java · Claude Code & AI Tooling · Figma · JIRA · Advanced Excel