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Abhinav Garg

Career break // side quests

Bengaluru

8+ years of work experience

Urban Company
Aug 20232 yrs 7 mosFeb 2026

Gurugram

Growth, Payments, Finance
Urban Company
Jan 20221 yr 8 mosAug 2023

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Customer and Partner experience, Cost efficiency
Urban Company
Jan 20211 yr 1 moJan 2022

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Painting category improvements, Conversion optimisation (revamp of checkout, offers, add-ons)
Guild Capital
Mar 202010 mosDec 2020

Mumbai Area, India

At Guild, I worked as an investment professional looking at deal sourcing, diligence, and portfolio management for early stage companies (Seed/Series A). Key deal: Pickrr (2020) I also closely worked with Houndstooth, Guild’s design platform company, managing key accounts and looking at operations.
McKinsey & Company
Jan 20191 yr 2 mosFeb 2020

Gurgaon, India

At McKinsey, I work as an Expert Consultant in the areas of Risk Management and Advanced Analytics, with allied focus on Banking and Digital. In my 2.5+ years of experience, I have worked in more than 4 geographies, being recognized by clients and leadership for distinctive service and contributions critical to driving impact. Key projects: 1. Transforming SME Lending Business for a large Indian bank, through developing a state of the art lending engine combining behavioural, financial and qualitative factors 2. Model validation for key portfolios for a US holding company (regulatory CCAR), identifying gaps in stress loss estimates and leading to client commendation for modelling expertise 3. Risk based valuation for a European oil & gas firm, with a top-down valuation model built for a project and uncertainties on the NPV quantified through simulations 4. Analytics scale up for a South-East Asian firm, through developing a tool enabling a <1 wk. turnaround of credit models 5. Lending Digitization for a European banking group, developing production ready mortgage engine in an agile-delivery mode In addition, I am involved in numerous internal initiatives with high visibility to build Firm wide assets for use on engagements, and also train colleagues on topics in Digital Risk. I was also featured in an analytics consulting recruiting video, which was released globally.
McKinsey & Company
Jul 20171 yr 6 mosDec 2018

Gurgaon, India

GE Aviation
May 20153 mosJul 2015

Bengaluru Area, India

As an intern at GE, I developed computational models and used simulations to predict heat transfer & flow properties in impinging jets. Skills: NX/Unigraphics (computational geometry), ANSYS ICEM CFD (mesh generation) and ANSYS CFX (CFD simulations)
Nov 20142 mosDec 2014

Mumbai Area, India

As a software developer intern at Quetzal, I made a natural language parser for resumes which extracted meaningful information and pre-filled a back-end MySQL database. It saved an estimated ~24 FTE-hours daily. Skills: Python, Natural Language Processing, MySQL

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor's and Master's degrees, Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

20125 yrs2017
Delhi Public School Bhopal

High School

Delhi Public School Bhopal

200012 yrs2012

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Headline

Career break // side quests

About

On a career break to rest and recharge. If you're exploring ideas or if I can be of any help with something that you're building, please give me a shout. Work experience includes 5 years at Urban Company in Product Management, 1 year at Guild Capital in early stage investing, and 3 years at McKinsey as a consultant (Banking/Risk/Digital).

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

lovable

Make

Supabase

Zapier

Work experience

Associate Director (Product) at Urban Company, Aug 2023 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Gurugram, Growth, Payments, Finance

Senior Product Manager at Urban Company, Jan 2022 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Customer and Partner experience, Cost efficiency

Product Manager at Urban Company, Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Painting category improvements, Conversion optimisation (revamp of checkout, offers, add-ons)

Junior Associate at Guild Capital, Mar 2020 - Dec 2020 · 10 mos, Mumbai Area, India, At Guild, I worked as an investment professional looking at deal sourcing, diligence, and portfolio management for early stage companies (Seed/Series A). Key deal: Pickrr (2020) I also closely worked with Houndstooth, Guild’s design platform company, managing key accounts and looking at operations.

Senior Analytics Fellow at McKinsey & Company, Jan 2019 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos, Gurgaon, India, At McKinsey, I work as an Expert Consultant in the areas of Risk Management and Advanced Analytics, with allied focus on Banking and Digital. In my 2.5+ years of experience, I have worked in more than 4 geographies, being recognized by clients and leadership for distinctive service and contributions critical to driving impact. Key projects: 1. Transforming SME Lending Business for a large Indian bank, through developing a state of the art lending engine combining behavioural, financial and qualitative factors 2. Model validation for key portfolios for a US holding company (regulatory CCAR), identifying gaps in stress loss estimates and leading to client commendation for modelling expertise 3. Risk based valuation for a European oil & gas firm, with a top-down valuation model built for a project and uncertainties on the NPV quantified through simulations 4. Analytics scale up for a South-East Asian firm, through developing a tool enabling a <1 wk. turnaround of credit models 5. Lending Digitization for a European banking group, developing production ready mortgage engine in an agile-delivery mode In addition, I am involved in numerous internal initiatives with high visibility to build Firm wide assets for use on engagements, and also train colleagues on topics in Digital Risk. I was also featured in an analytics consulting recruiting video, which was released globally.

Analytics Fellow at McKinsey & Company, Jul 2017 - Dec 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Gurgaon, India

Intern at GE Aviation, May 2015 - Jul 2015 · 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, As an intern at GE, I developed computational models and used simulations to predict heat transfer & flow properties in impinging jets. Skills: NX/Unigraphics (computational geometry), ANSYS ICEM CFD (mesh generation) and ANSYS CFX (CFD simulations)

Winter Intern at Quetzal Verify Private Limited, Nov 2014 - Dec 2014 · 2 mos, Mumbai Area, India, As a software developer intern at Quetzal, I made a natural language parser for resumes which extracted meaningful information and pre-filled a back-end MySQL database. It saved an estimated ~24 FTE-hours daily. Skills: Python, Natural Language Processing, MySQL

Education

Bachelor's and Master's degrees, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

High School, Delhi Public School Bhopal