Hi, I'm Arjun

I'm trying to build great teams, lasting companies, and useful products.

Work:

I'm building something new! Previously, I ran product, engineering, and data at Climb Credit, where we help people up their earning potential by giving them tools to find and finance great education. Before that, I worked at BlackRock, where I focused on portfolio analytics, reporting, developer experience, and later, leading product + engineering teams creating analytics software to help companies provide better financial advice.

Values:

Servant leadership, playing positive-sum games, helping people find their best selves.

Let's talk:

I've lived in multiple countries, and I love coffee, sneakers, and food. I'm always down to meet new friends, hit me up!

Work

Building something new
Coming Soon - watch this space!


Chief Technology Officer
Climb Credit, New York, NY
June 2016 - July 2020

Climb is a lender focused on high-ROI education. I lead Climb’s engineering and product teams and drive product strategy.

  • Grew company 100% YoY from $0.5 to $5mm ARR, $10mm to $70mm in originations, and 25 to 200 school partners.
  • Recruited and built Climb’s engineering, product and data teams, scaling the team from 1 - 12 people and the company from 5 - 50.
Founding Engineer, Analytics Engineering
BlackRock, New York, NY
July 2013 — June 2016

BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager. I held multiple roles across the firm focused on analytics and developer experience.

  • Built Aladdin for Retail, a $30mm annual run rate SaaS business delivering portfolio analytics to large wealth managers. Grew product + engineering team from 5 to 40
  • Built, advocated, and led GTM for AladdinHelp, a pre-WalkMe WalkMe, saving over 1,000 support hours/year.
  • Saved over 4,000 developer hours/year by leading an upgrade of the company's web technology stack across 2,000 developers.
  • Saved over $300,000/year in spend and software resources for BlackRock's $14 trillion risk reporting platform in my first 6 months through multiple projects that saved thousands of machine-hours on BlackRock's cloud platform.

Education

Cornell University
Master of Science, Applied Physics
2011 - 2013
PSG College of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
2007 - 2011