Experience
💼 Work Experience
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2023-Current
Principal Data Scientist, Capital One (Discover Financial Services)
Discover Financial Services- Agentic Loss Mitigation System
- Regulatory Copilots & Text-to-SQL
- Automated Servicing NLP
- Enterprise Regulatory Monitoring Hub
- Risk-Informed Pricing Optimization
- Next-Generation Underwriting & PD Modeling
- Application Fraud Detection
- Payment Processing optimization
- Delinquency Reporting
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2022
Data Scientist
Aspen Capital- Home Equity Credit Card Launch Strategy
- Risk Aware Pricing Decision System with Market Feedback Loop
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2021
VP of Data Science
PennyMac- Loan Status Disposition Modeling
- Probability of Default, Loss Given Default and Prepayment modeling
- Nonlinear effects of Natural Disasters
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2020
Investment Associate Intern
CalPERS- Linear programming model to minimize index future roll cost.
- Estimated incremental financing costs for stressed liquidity portfolios (collateral REPO vs OIS).
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2019
Quantitative Research Associate
JP Morgan Chase & Co- Credit Card Payment Fraud Detetction Modelling
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2018
Asset Management Intern
Goldman Sachs- Advised a $2B AUM pension client in a multi-asset strategy team.
- Optimized 20+ portfolios maximizing information ratio with leverage & vol selling.
- Built an Excel tool to spot opportunities across 26 indices using earnings/sales data.
- Benchmarked ETFs to define a dynamic cap-weighted REITs index.
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2015–17
Senior Associate (Python Developer)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch- Python orchestrator on Quartz framework for derivative trade data processing.
- Real-time settlement & reconciliation for global Equity & Forex derivatives.
- Integrated money-market settlement tools across subsidiaries → process speed +150%.
- Automated EOD reconciliation of nostro accounts → saved 300+ hours/month.
🎓 Education
University of California, Berkeley — Haas School of Business
Master of Financial Engineering — Mar 2021
Coursework: Stochastic Calculus, Time Series, Financial Data Science, Deep Learning, Fixed Income, Derivatives Pricing, Asset Management, Behavioral Finance, Risk Management
Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML)
MBA (Finance & Strategy) — 2017–2019
Coursework: Derivatives & Risk Management, Quantitative Analysis, Corporate Valuation & Restructuring
emlyon business school, Lyon, France
Exchange — MSc in Management — 2018
Project: Python Monte Carlo & Binomial option pricing for vanilla and exotic options.
BITS Pilani
B.Tech — Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering — 2011–2015