Writehit
2014 – 2017Economics Writer
Writing about economics, where the accidental career in markets began.
Now
Shipping
Career
Highlights
- years in markets
- 12+
- weekly pageviews from Benzinga Neuro
- 5M+
- people led on a remote team
- 20
- paying customers at Dzambhala
- 150
Cointelegraph
2016 – 2018Markets Reporter
Covered cryptocurrency markets as they went mainstream.
Velix.ID
2017 – 2018Head of Partnerships
Led partnerships for the identity-verification startup.
The Next Web
2018 – 2019Founding Crypto Reporter
Joined as the founding reporter on the crypto desk.
Benzinga
Oct 2019 – Nov 2024Team Lead, Founder & Technical Product Lead
Five years across three roles, leading a 20-person remote team through multiple launches.
Benzinga Labs · Project Founder & Technical Product Lead
- Created Benzinga Neuro, an AI system generating 5M+ weekly pageviews
- Increased productivity 250% while cutting costs by $4,500 a month
- Built the system that turned Benzinga's own data into coverage, in Python and Django
Benzinga India · Founder
- Scaled to 1M monthly pageviews within the first year
- Secured partnerships with Times Group, Jio Platforms and Microsoft Start
- Led a 5-person distributed team on async workflows
US Markets · Team Lead
- Grew the remote team from 1 to 14 members
- Lifted engagement 200% through data-informed improvements
- Built integrated analytics dashboards in Django
Dzambhala Finance Inc.
Nov 2024 – PresentFounder & Product Lead
Software for traders and desks: The India Tape, JournoPilot, and Artificially Boosted.
- Scaled to 150 paying customers and 2,000+ followers through product-led growth
- Set product strategy and roadmap from user research and market analysis
- Reached product-market fit through rapid iteration on customer feedback
About
An accidental career in markets
A lot of people take the finance job for the money, then leave to chase what they actually wanted.
I never had to choose. The accident turned out to be the thing I loved.
Unorthodox life choices put me in cryptocurrency as a teenager in 2014. I have since moved beyond alternative investments into the wider markets: U.S. and Indian equities, futures and options.
The work is market data and research, shipped as products people actually use. My own portfolio runs on fundamental analysis and valuation, plus a fair amount of intuition. I also code, mostly building the tools that make the information usable.
In a wild-west career, I have solopreneured projects to success and, at other times, led teams as large as 20 people. I dive head-first into difficult problems, usually for the excuse to learn something new.
Elsewhere
Notes from the road
Travel memoirs and recommendations from a long-running tryst with Asia, with Europe coming next.