ajansenroy

Crypto Trading & Lending Product Director

Around a decade of experience in financial services, mostly in the capital markets. Working with a regulated Swiss crypto bank, leading product efforts in Trading, Lending and Investment Solutions. Strong focus on leveraging the benefits of DLT while abstracting away the challenges of interacting with DeFi, all done in a safe and compliant manner.
Significant previous TradFi experience - overseeing the issuance of structured products for the APAC markets at Goldman Sachs; building products for investment advisors and retail investors (first for a start-up and then for one of India's leading brokers).
Core areas of expertise include understanding of trading platforms (crypto spot, perpetuals, options as well as traditional securities like stocks, bonds, FX), liquidity aggregation, order routing, OMS/RMS/post-trade functions, exchange mechanics (both CEX and DEX), market making, prime brokerage, lending platforms (including DeFi protocols), market and credit risk, structured products, implications of regulations like MiCA and Basel III, product strategy. Basic knowledge of Solidity.
Education: BE from BITS Pilani, MBA from IIM Calcutta, CFA L2, FRM.


Experience: 9 years

Yearly salary: $100,000

Hourly rate: $50

Nationality: ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India

Residency: ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India


Experience

Director, Product Management
AMINA Bank
2024 - 2026
Leading initiatives in Trading, Lending & Investment Solutions. Ongoing projects include: reducing deposit-to-trade lag from 2 hours to real-time; UI revamp [crypto options in-app, DCA, TradingView charts, perpetual futures, investment solutions/ETPs, option strategies/quant insights]; overhauling traditional securities trading flow; evaluating tokenized RWAs; virtual credit card projects. Key deliveries: Built credit risk tool powering 15% revenue crypto lending [margining, automated calls, Lombard/syndicated loans]; integrated Talos liquidity + Signal Plus analytics; enabled STP for OTC derivatives [30minโ†’2min/trade]; onboarded Deribit/Galaxy/Cumberland + 4 new coins; created trader liquidity dashboard.
Deputy Vice President - Products
Kotak Securities
2022 - 2023
Ideated, validated, developed, launched and scaled StockCase, a platform for retail investors to invest in stock baskets curated by investment advisors. Led a team to deliver the product in 9 months and scaled subscriptions by 10x.
Product Manager
WealthDesk
2021 - 2022
Developed product vision and roadmap as 1st Product Manager for an early stage start-up, acquired by PhonePe. Created a Dashboard capturing platform data for brokers and investment advisors. Designed a key rebalancing algorithm.
Associate (Private Investor Products Group)
Goldman Sachs
2018 - 2021
Raised $10 billion in unsecured funding & earned revenue of $50 million through issuance of structured notes & swaps. Collaborated with Sales teams across 5 countries.
Operations Analyst (US Credit Card Division)
Capital One
2014 - 2016
Used SQL to analyse credit card data; developed new metrics and improved operational processes, saving $40,000 annually.
Trainee Decision Scientist, Products Division
Mu Sigma
2013 - 2014
Improved features of a proprietary statistical software through quality assurance testing and liaising with developers.

Skills

defi
finance
fintech
integration
operations
partnership
product-marketing
saas
sales
solidity
sql
strategy
tokenization
tokenomics
trader
treasury
user acquisition
product-manager
english
bengali
hindi