Headline

Bain & Co. || IIMB’26 (Director’s List) || CFA L2 cleared || IITD’21 || Ex-Zomato

About

I’ve always been drawn to problems where the answer is not just a model, a dashboard or a slide, but a decision that changes how a business moves. I’m a Junior Consultant at Bain, with a background across AI/ML, product analytics, GTM strategy and business transformation. Before Bain, I worked at TransformationX on GenAI-led SaaS positioning, GTM and performance improvement; at S45 on AI-native investment-banking workflows across diligence, IPO analysis and market mapping; and at Zomato across business analytics, product analytics and ML engineering, including ad-product performance, inventory management, OCR, fraud detection and NLP. I’m from IIM Bangalore’s MBA Class of 2026, where I was on the Director’s List, an IIT Delhi graduate, and have cleared CFA Level II. The common thread across my journey has been connecting strategy, data, technology and execution, framing the right problem, building practical solutions and tying them to business outcomes. I’m particularly interested in AI-led transformation, growth strategy, commercial diligence, enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, fintech/investment tech and performance improvement. Outside formal roles, I’ve also enjoyed building, mentoring and working on social-impact initiatives, which have shaped how I think about ownership, teams and impact.

Location

New Delhi

AI stack

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Work experience

Junior Consultant at Bain & Company, Jun 2026 - Present · 3 mos, Gurugram

Founders Office Intern at S45, Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Helped build AI native investment Banking: 1. Architected hybrid LLM-API DRHP extraction pipeline with custom prompts and field-level eval harness; slashed per-filing diligence from 8 hours to 90 seconds at ₹15 per DRHP with 95%+ accuracy. 2. Designed 180-point IA for retail IPO discovery platform with AI auto-summaries, risk synthesis, and peer benchmarking; positioned as analysis-only to sidestep SEBI Research Analyst registration. 3. Ran $5M Series A market map, competitive intel, and 30-day launch playbook through orchestrated LLM agents, delivering multi-analyst output as a solo intern

Summer Associate at TransformationX, Apr 2025 - May 2025 · 2 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Awarded Pre Placement Offer, one of 7 interns from IIMA/B to get PPO • Positioned firm's SAAS product to be GenAI centered, benchmarking 10+ products, led a $20K MVP • Orchestrated GTM for the SAAS product; targeted 90+ system integrators, landed 7 pilots, ~$100K ARR • Evaluated 18 Knowledge Mngmt. tools, proposed AI assistant on existing suite, cutting search time by 30% • Led EBITDA transformation of GCC luxury resort; designed 10+ rev. levers, targeting ~$1M rev. uplift

Software Engineer at Readyly, Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 · 3 mos, Remote, 1. Researched & led the development of AI analytics dashboard, indirectly processing data from 50K+ users 2. Designed front-end for analytics dashboard, incorporating 15+ key metrics and 5+ graphical representation 3. Collaborated with founders on wireframe design, conceptualizing multiple features and KPIs for dashboard

SDE (Machine Learning Team) at Zomato, Dec 2021 - Oct 2022 · 11 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Worked on making Zomato a better place through: Computer Vision (OCR) for handwritten Images: Worked on optical character recognition by using the following tools and libraries: TR-OCR, Tesseract, keras_ocr, attention_ocr, and various other tools such as trdg for synthetic data generation. Data Science (Fraud detection): Worked on fraud detection (Model development + Deployment) at the user level by following tools: Feature Selection and Extraction, Model Selection, MLflow with Fast-API Model development, Vegeta Load Testing, Butterfly Setup, Monitoring on Grafana NLP (Embedding clustering): Clustered Embeddings using various available libraries including sentence BERT, Word2Vec, Para2Vec, etc, used Density-based Scanning for clustering and t-SNE for projecting embeddings to two-dimensional data for visualization of clusters.

Product Analyst at Zomato, Jun 2021 - Dec 2021 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Introduced several improvements and experiments hence making the product a grand success by analytics of the product Reduced under-delivery of clicks by calculating contributions from several factors such as CTR, Shutdown, and Sell-able Score and hence implemented a solution that decreased UD considerably Inventory management for ads by creating tableau inventory dashboard with excellent visual represented data to effectively understand the situation Created several tableau and Redash dashboards using Presto-SQL for analyzing the data in the best possible way and taking appropriate actions

Business Analyst at Zomato, Jan 2021 - Jun 2021 · 6 mos, India, Created Tableau dashboards for effective inventory management. Created ETL pipelines for making various derived tables as per the requirements. Helped with various data extraction and summarization with the help of tools such as Excel and SQL.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Public links

github: https://github.com/rounak2460

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@rounak_tikmani