Experience
2025 — Now
• Drive global fraud prevention initiatives at PayPal, protecting millions of customers and merchants by detecting and mitigating high-risk transactions across payments, account access, and identity systems, thereby supporting the Global Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) policies.
• Technical authority for PayPal's global fraud protection organization, shaping the architecture and long-term technology strategy for real-time risk platforms that protect $1.8 trillion in annual payment volume across 434 million active accounts in 200+ markets, spanning PayPal, Venmo, Xoom, and Braintree.
• Leverage advanced analytics, machine learning and AI models, and real-time risk decisioning to proactively identify fraud patterns—reducing financial losses, minimizing false positives, and improving customer experience at scale for PayPal's product suite (includes PayPal Checkout, the product suite responsible for nearly half of PayPal Inc.'s total revenue)
• Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and compliance teams to embed robust fraud controls into core payment flows, strengthen platform integrity while enabling seamless and secure transactions. Lead end-to-end fraud investigations and incident response efforts, performing root-cause analysis and implement long-term controls that enhance detection accuracy and reduced repeat attack vectors.
• Continuously adapt to evolving global fraud trends by optimizing risk strategies, enhancing authentication mechanisms, and scaling prevention systems to support billions of transactions annually through intelligent automation.
2023 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
2021 — 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Avant (AvantCredit®) was founded in 2012 with the goal of improving the borrowing experience for middle-income consumers. A byproduct of the Y Combinator startup accelerator program, Avant is an online lending platform, that streamlines the online borrowing process.
Avant has secured more than $4 billion in institutional funding and has issued over 1-million personal loan, auto loan and credit card products through its lending platform. It has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg and Crain's Chicago Business. In 2015, Avant was named to Forbes America's Most Promising Companies list as well as Forbes list of Next Billion Dollar Startups.
Led data science initiatives across digital marketing and customer acquisition, building machine learning models to optimize targeting, bidding, and campaign performance across paid search, display, and social channels.
• Developed predictive models using Python (scikit-learn, XGBoost) and SQL, improving marketing ROI through audience segmentation and budget allocation.
• Leveraged Hotjar to analyze user behavior through heatmaps, session recordings & conversion funnels, uncovering UX bottlenecks and driving a 12% improvement in landing page conversion rates through data-informed design changes.
• Designed and executed large-scale A/B and multivariate tests to evaluate messaging, landing page performance, and cross-channel strategies, influencing $MM budget decisions.
• Built automated pipelines for performance reporting and attribution using Airflow, dbt, and Looker, reducing manual reporting time by 40% and enabling real-time insights.
• Conducted cohort and funnel analysis to understand user behavior and inform retention strategies, directly improving re-engagement rates by 18%.
• Delivered executive-facing dashboards and insights that shaped go-to-market planning, creative testing, and budget reallocation across channels.
2020 — 2020
2020 — 2020
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Moog Music Inc. is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included the Moog synthesizer (the first commercial synthesizer), followed by the Minimoog in 1970, both of which were highly influential electronic instruments.
In June 2023, Moog Music was acquired by inMusic.
Moog Music also manages Moogfest, a pioneering electronic music and music technology festival in Durham, North Carolina.
Education
Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business
Master's degree
Stanford University
Machine Learning
University of Mumbai
Master of Business Administration - MBA
University of Mumbai