The Beginning
2013 – 2014Took odd jobs on the internet as a teenager, mostly copywriting, starting at $5 an hour. My first unforgettable gig was to write a SEO copy for a website of a temple in Southern India.
Now
Shipping
Career
Highlights
- years in markets
- 12+
- weekly pageviews from Benzinga Neuro
- 5M+
- people led on a remote team
- 14
- paying customers at Norbu Labs
- 150
Entering the world of Finance
Dec 2014 – Oct 2017Christened into the world of investment and finance, ghostwriting content for Writehit.com. Earned my first Bitcoin, and yes I sold it immediately for fiat at this exchange called Zebpay as I was really worried about it being scam at the time, and rapidly falling in value.
Getting Serious
Dec 2015 – Mar 2018Joining Cointelegraph as staff writer, this is when I truly became fascinated by the concept of Bitcoin, reading the works of Andreas Antonopoulos and Austrian school economists. These were also the days when everyone in crypto shared one Cointelegraph Skype channel and I got to engage with many early backers on a day-to-day basis.
Web 3 Startup
Nov 2017 – Apr 2018Joined the founding team at Velix.ID to work on partnerships and outreach for the ERC-20 token startup. ICOs were all the rage at this time, and I have very differing feelings about this now, but at the time, it was exciting to work on this side of things and being so involved as to sleep at the office couch for months. Things when bust when Ethereum suddenly crashed soon after the ICO and this became a life-long lesson.
The Next Web
Mar 2018 – Jul 2019Crypto and Blockchain
Explored the strength and weaknesses of the wider cryptocurrency industry in this role for The Next Web as their lead crypto writer, including early promising developments in the Bitcoin Lightning Network, the constant 51% on-chain attacks happening with altcoins and other kind of grifts in the industry.
Benzinga
Oct 2019 – Nov 2024Five years on Benzinga.com, across the Asia desk, Benzinga India, and Benzinga Labs.
Team Lead, Asia · Oct 2019 – Nov 2024
- Led 14 people across Asia, covering U.S. equities, cryptocurrency, consumer tech, electric vehicles, the space race, and macroeconomics.
Project Founder, Benzinga India · Jan 2023 – Nov 2024
- Stock news and analysis for NSE and BSE listings, carried by Dailyhunt, Times Group's Newspoint, Jio News, Bloomberg, and LexisNexis.
Project Lead, Benzinga Labs · Sep 2023 – Nov 2024
- Built Benzinga Neuro and the other data-science experiments, using Matplotlib and Plotly to scale the content and the analysis.
Norbu Labs
Nov 2024 – PresentBuilding
The studio for the financial products, based in Taipei.
The India Tape
Dec 2024 – PresentFounder
Formerly Dzambhala NodeX. Agentic research into Indian equities and commodities.
MyFundedFutures
Aug 2025 – Aug 2026Head of Organic Growth
Built MarketFramework and futures content for the prop firm, and worked on growth and retention through organic search.
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 a remote team of 14. 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.