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# Abhinav Garg on Tal

## 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

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