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title: "Pavan Dongare - Building S45 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Pavan Dongare, Building Investment Bank based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, antigravity, and claude code."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/pavan-dongare/share-image"
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# Pavan Dongare on Tal

## Headline

Building Investment Bank

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

geminicli

## Work experience

Building S45 at S45, Jun 2026 \- Present · 3 mos, S45 is building an AI\-native investment bank for the global mid\-market\. We’re redesigning IPO and M&A execution from first principles, using AI to replace fragmented workflows with systems that own outcomes end\-to\-end\.

Software Engineer at Leucine \- AI for Pharma, Sep 2025 \- Jan 2026 · 5 mos, Bengaluru

Software Engineer at Unilever, Feb 2024 \- Sep 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Remote, \- 10x growth in core compliance metrics across Unilever\. \- Led data compliance across 1000\+ website portfolio\. \- consulted data & compliance strategy to Unilever Consumer Tech Head \- consulting contract work through Neem Consulting UK & Publicis Sapient

TPM at Vahak, Mar 2022 \- Feb 2023 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Growth \-10x SEO index coverage \-10x increase in registrations via A/B onboarding experiments \(\~4x conversion rate\) \-2x organic traffic impressions in months Product \-Launched marketplace interaction feature \-Introduced user\-to\-user calls Tech \-Security audit \+ auth revamp \-React to Next\.js migration Moved to Vercel for improved DX \-Upgraded payments with backup options

Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley, Aug 2018 \- Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Part of wealth management client\-facing team handling banks' interaction with clients\.

## Education

Master's degree, CSE, Machine Learning, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University

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