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Built analytics behind IBKR’s 300K → 5M global accounts | MS Univ. of Illinois Chicago | IIT-BHU | Data, AI & Analytics.

About

I spent 12 years inside Interactive Brokers, an NYSE-listed US brokerage serving 5 million accounts across 150+ countries. Building the analytics infrastructure that supported their global growth from 300,000 accounts to where they are today. Before joining IB, I studied at the University of Illinois Chicago (MS, MIS - GPA 3.82, Dean's Full Tuition Waiver) and IIT-BHU, one of India's most selective engineering institutions (top 0.2% nationally). I've worked with global teams across the US, Europe, and Asia throughout my career. At IBKR I built the data analytics function from scratch, there was none when I joined. I introduced Python, R, dbt, Snowflake, Power BI and Claude AI across marketing and product teams, grew the function to a 5-person team, and helped optimise a $200M annual marketing budget. One of my favourite wins: I saved $100K in wasted Ad spend in a single campaign. I also contributed to the official IB R API and presented at the R/Finance Conference in Chicago, where our work helped attract sophisticated high-value traders to the platform. Data Engineering, Analytics, BI, ML, GenAI — for fintech, marketing-led, and healthtech companies globally. Python · R · SQL · dbt · Snowflake · Power BI · Tableau · PyTorch · Claude AI · AWS

Location

Mumbai

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

Work experience

Senior Data & Analytics Leader - Marketing, Product & Trading at Interactive Brokers, Jun 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 3 mos, Mumbai Area, India, • Set up the data analytics function at IBKR from scratch, introduced Python, R, dbt, Snowflake, Power BI and Claude AI across marketing and product teams; grew the function to a 5-person team • Core member of the analytics team during IBKR's growth from 300,000 to 50 million global accounts, built the marketing attribution, customer segmentation, and pipeline infrastructure that supported this growth • Optimised a $200M annual marketing budget using AI-enabled attribution models across Google, Facebook, and email channels • Saved $100K in a single campaign by identifying 98% of Facebook ad clicks were from non-target geographies using IP location analysis • Replaced C-suite Excel reporting with real-time Power BI dashboards — enabling stakeholder self-serve and freeing the data team from manual reporting cycles • Implemented dbt + Snowflake for version-controlled, modular data transformations — significantly improved pipeline reliability and analyst productivity • Contributed to the official Interactive Brokers R API; represented IB at the R/Finance Conference, where the work helped attract sophisticated high-value traders to the platform • Leveraged Claude AI (Sonnet) and Claude Code for workflow automation — reduced dashboard build time from days to hours (10x productivity gain) • Mentored 4 analysts from zero data background to full professional capability in Python, SQL, R, Power BI and Tableau

Intern, Product Analytics at Press Ganey Associates, Jun 2013 - Nov 2013 · 6 mos, Baltimore, Maryland Area, Clustering and sentiment analysis on 100GB+ healthcare datasets. Managed intern team, presented to executive leadership.

Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Chicago, Aug 2012 - Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Chicago Area, Hadoop + LDA topic modelling on labour market data. Social media influence network analytics

Senior Software Engineer at HCL Technologies, Mar 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, ETL and BI for capital market trade surveillance. Real-time pipelines across equity and fixed income.

IT Analyst at Tata Consultancy Services, Jun 2006 - Feb 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Gurgaon & Belgium, India & Belgium: BI and data warehousing for NedBank, Rabobank, KBC. End-to-end Oracle/OBIEE delivery across multilocation teams

Education

MS, Management Information Systems, University of Illinois Chicago

Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi