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Experienced Product Manager and Analyst. Skilled in financial modelling, industry analysis, valuation, and research. Interested in working with data-driven technology companies. WORK EXPERIENCE Financial Engineer | Technical Product Manager – Seed Labs Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 Seed Labs raised $37Mn for Bluefin.io -(Formerly Firefly.Exchange), a decentralized derivatives exchange. $180mn+ cumulative volume since Nov-2022. I was part a two-person team responsible for the research, planning, documentation, shipping, and testing the technical design of all functions and features of the exchange. - Smart Contracts: · Writing and finalizing Spec Docs with founders and guiding engineers to make smart contracts production ready. · Modelling capital flows and the business logic for Isolated Margin Perpetuals Smart Contracts. · Identified corner cases, vulnerabilities, in the business logic of Smart Contracts and implementing fixes. - UX, UI – API Layer: · Research and design of key off-chain UX components of the exchange including the Orderbook, Order Management Logic, Trade and Order History Tabs, User Account Page. · Writing Spec Docs and Test Cases for formulas involved with order placing and auto cancellation of orders. · Writing the logic for important features like Stop-Loss, OCO Orders and Reduce-Only Orders. - Market Making / Liquidation Bots: · Testing and debugging of cross-exchange market making bots. · Finalizing the logic for Bluefin.io’s on-chain liquidation flow and an off-chain liquidation bot. - Business Analytics: · Designed the general framework for business analytics and performance monitoring dashboards. · Bluefin.io ran a brief Test-net in March 2022 with participation from 86,000 unique addresses and processed 818,000 trades in 96 hours. (20,839 unique users after adjusting for bots / farmers). · Analyzed UX research from the Test-net and user surveys, prioritized bug fixes and UX improvements. - Tokenomics: · Modelled the Tokenomics options for Bluefin.io – accounting for cliffs, supply pressure, staking and burn mechanisms. - Corp Dev Analyst (Aug 2020 – Jan 2021) · Preparation of pitch decks for the pre-seed and seed rounds. Bluefin.io raised $6.4mn in the seed round at $50mn valuation and a $7.5mn Series-A at $250mn valuation. AVP- Investment Analyst, Providus Capital Ltd Mar 2017 – Feb 2021 Part of founding team. Economic Forecasts: · Predicted Pakistan’s twin deficit crisis of 2017-2019. · Studied Balance of Payments crises in developing economies like Pakistan – particularly the impact on public equity markets. We concluded that a significant devaluation and its repercussions were inevitable. Equity Research: Conducted equity research in the Automotive, Oil, and Chemical sectors to identify alpha generating opportunities through thorough financial modeling, news and policy analysis, and industry networking. Successful Forecasts: · 90%+ return on investment in Century Paper based on government-led tightening against smuggling/dumping of packaging goods. · 50%+ return on investment in Attock Refinery short. Predicted a oversupply in Furnace Oil supply chain. · 50%+ return on investmentin Hascol short: Evaluated that Hascol’s earnings were inflated, and predicted a significant correction in stock price. · 60%+ return in Pakistan State Oil long: Identified opportunity in PSO at Rs. 110/sh, stock and went to above Rs.200/sh. · Predicted that a scheduled factory shutdown in Korea will allow Pakistani manufacturers to earn supernormal profits for a few quarters. Sitara Peroxide’s stock went from Rs.18/sh in Aug-2018 to Rs.40/sh in Oct-2018. · Forecasted significant demand attrition in the Automobile industry in 2019-2020, ahead of the market. Research Analyst, Al Meezan Investments Oct 2014 – Mar 2017 EDUCATION CFA Institute | CFA Level-1 , Dec-2015 IBA - Karachi | Bachelors of Business Administration, 2010-2014 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Financial Modeling, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and Bloomberg Terminal. Interests: Reading, Macroeconomics, freelance writing, solving twisty puzzles, Sustainable Organic Urban Agriculture. Languages: Fluent in English and Urdu.