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Abhishek Das

I am a Chemical Engineering undergraduate at IIT Guwahati interested in how products are built, decisions are made and complex problems are structured. My experience spans product management, consulting, analytics and student leadership, with a consistent focus on turning evidence into useful action.

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IIT Guwahati · Class of 2027New Delhi ↔ Guwahati
Abhishek Das outside the American Express officeAmerican Express · Gurugram · 2026

Work experience

Product, consulting and quantitative systems.

American Express

Product Management & Lending · Membership Rewards

Built a reproducible decision framework across 10.36M accounts, translating customer behaviour into five action-oriented profiles and a cross-functional roadmap.
  • 10.36M accounts
  • 5 MECE profiles
  • 63% coverage gap surfaced
Role details
  • Isolated a public-safe set of behavioural and margin patterns, including a focused loss-making cohort for more precise marketing decisions.
  • Connected each segment to retention, redemption or suppression actions instead of stopping at analytical labels.
  • Aligned Marketing, Benefits and Risk stakeholders; internal rules, decks and customer-level logic remain confidential.

Grant Thornton Bharat

Transformation Consulting · Summer Intern

Worked across investment promotion, airport monetisation and regulatory benchmarking—turning research into trackers, commercial options and implementation decisions.
  • ₹10L Cr MoU programme
  • 243-acre site
  • Global tariff benchmarks
Role details
  • Built an investment roadmap and Power BI tracker for India Maritime Week 2025, supporting a national-scale MoU programme.
  • Assessed monetisation options for a 243-acre airport site using land-use, PPP and global benchmark evidence.
  • Compared tariff regimes and developed differential-pricing logic; client material and working files remain protected.

Affy India Pvt. Ltd.

Technical Intern · Quant Trading Systems

Developed components of a Python-based live-market trading agent, with responsibility for strategy execution, concurrency and real-time options data integration.
  • 100+ GTT orders/day
  • 40% faster response
  • <150 ms data latency
Role details
  • Built the strategy class and automated execution workflow for Good-Till-Triggered orders in live-market conditions.
  • Introduced a multithreaded architecture to improve throughput and reduce response time by approximately 40%.
  • Integrated and maintained a real-time options API and tick-level data pipeline while preserving the startup’s proprietary trading logic.

Selected projects / 2024–26

Six projects across strategy, analytics and product.

Six independent projects across product, commercialisation, energy, public policy, quantitative finance and M&A—kept deliberately separate from professional experience.

05Quantitative finance · 1st at Inter IIT

Regime-aware BTC and ETH trading systems

Built two research-led strategies for UnTrade using reinforcement learning, cross-asset signals and explicit risk controls—winning the quantitative finance problem statement among 20+ IITs.

  • 1st among 20+ IITs
  • Q-learning + CUSUM
  • 45% lower drawdown
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Challenge

Find robust crypto signals that adapt to changing regimes rather than optimise for one historical window.

Approach

Combined model-free Q-learning for BTC with CUSUM regime detection and BTC–ETH trend alignment for ETH; added ATR filters, trailing stops and timed exits.

Outcome

The research delivered the winning Inter IIT submission. Reported return and Sharpe figures are historical back-test results, not live-investment performance.

Quant researchBacktestingRisk design
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03Energy strategy · Global Top 20%

A portfolio strategy for European battery storage

Prioritised seven markets and designed a 2028 rollout across market entry, configuration, contracting, capability and capital allocation.

  • 7 priority markets
  • ~390 MW
  • 14.2% levered IRR
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Challenge

Price volatility, curtailment and uneven market maturity made a single European growth playbook unreliable.

Approach

Screened ten markets, prioritised seven, and built a 5C strategy across country, configuration, contracting, capability and capital.

Decision

Recommended a two-phase 2028 portfolio backed by an approximately €300M equity plan, ~390 MW of capacity and a modelled 14.2% levered IRR.

Market entryCapital allocationScenario analysis
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02Operating model transformation

Reframing banking around customer goals

Built a customer-goal operating model with cross-functional governance, AI-enabled journeys, implementation waves and value-attribution logic.

  • 54M customers
  • 50 journeys reviewed
  • 36-month rollout
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Challenge

A product-led structure fragmented ownership across 54M customers, 6.3K branches and 50 priority journeys.

Approach

Used public disclosures and global benchmarks to map decision rights, customer-goal owners, economic accounts and a common risk spine.

Decision

Proposed a two-wave operating model and a 36-month transition, with 2035 scenarios for 15% wallet uplift, a sub-42% cost-income ratio and 100M+ customers.

Operating modelRoadmapGovernance
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04Public policy · Zonal Top 10

A five-year roadmap for India’s sporting excellence

Combined international benchmarking and stakeholder interviews into a roadmap spanning talent, infrastructure, competition, governance and technology.

  • 57,200+ participants
  • 5-year roadmap
  • ₹38,750 Cr plan
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Challenge

Fragmented scouting and uneven utilisation across 150+ Khelo India Centres constrained the pathway to 100 Olympic medals by 2036.

Approach

Benchmarked three countries, interviewed stakeholders and designed an AI-assisted discovery system covering 5,000+ schools.

Decision

Proposed a five-year, ₹38,750 Cr roadmap across talent, infrastructure, competition, governance and private-sector participation.

PolicyStakeholder researchImplementation
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01Commercialisation · Global Rank 1

Scaling assistance-dog inclusion without mission drift

Designed a staged B2B and B2C growth model spanning certification, education and membership—supported by unit economics, rollout KPIs and governance guardrails.

  • 27+ countries
  • 6-year model
  • €2.5M revenue ambition
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Challenge

Create repeatable revenue for a mission-led nonprofit without diluting access, trust or service quality.

Approach

Mapped customer and partner segments, designed certification, education and membership offers, then tested the model through unit economics and scenario planning.

Decision

Sequenced a six-year rollout with explicit pricing, partner roles, operating KPIs and mission-protection guardrails.

GTMBusiness modelFinancial modelling
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06M&A strategy · 1st Runner-Up

Re-underwriting Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition

Evaluated the landmark acquisition through strategic fit, market structure, valuation, synergies and downside risk—then defended a clear investment recommendation.

  • 1,000+ teams
  • $19B deal analysed
  • DCF + sensitivities
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Challenge

Determine whether Facebook’s 2014 WhatsApp acquisition created enough strategic and economic value to justify its headline price.

Approach

Triangulated industry dynamics, precedent transactions, user economics, DCF scenarios, strategic synergies and integration risks.

Decision

Recommended the horizontal acquisition for mobile reach, international expansion and defensive value, while retaining explicit monetisation and execution guardrails.

M&AValuationStrategic diligence
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Student leadership / 2025–26

Institute Secretary, Consulting & Analytics Club.

As Institute Secretary of IIT Guwahati’s Consulting & Analytics Club, I led a multidisciplinary student organisation spanning consulting, analytics, finance and product.

Consulting and Analytics Club leadership team at IIT Guwahati
The team behind the work.
120+member organisation
20+industry partnerships
₹5L+annual budget managed
3,000+learners across 100+ colleges
Abhishek Das speaking at a lectern at IIT Guwahati
Turning ideas into shared direction.
Flagship · AI/ML

Convolve

Led the club’s Pan-IIT AI/ML learning and competition platform—bringing together top institutes, industry collaborators and a national student audience.

  • 120% YoY registration growth
  • ₹1.5L prize pool
  • Pan-IIT reach
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Flagship · Strategy

Strategy Storm

Helped lead C&A’s flagship global case platform—an eight-edition competition connecting students and working professionals with real industry problems, expert sessions and an IIT Guwahati finale.

  • 4,000+ registrations in the previous edition
  • 500+ institutions
  • ₹4L+ prize value
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Selected recognition

Competition results and distinctions.

  1. 01Global Rank 1Creative Shock · teams from 27+ countries
  2. 021st PositionInter IIT Technical Meet 13.0 · 20+ IITs
  3. 03National Semi-FinalistHSBC–HKU India Business Case Programme · 10,000+ participants
  4. 04Co-AuthorGrant Thornton knowledge paper: Gati Se Pragati
  5. 05Zonal Top 10NationBuilding policy case · 57,200+ students
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  1. 06Global Top 20%CBS Global Case Competition · 90+ countries
  2. 07National FinalistIndian Case Competition, IIT Kharagpur · 1,000+ teams
  3. 081st Runner-UpMnAnalyse global M&A case competition · 1,000+ teams
  4. 091st PositionInnovating IITG · 12+ hostels
  5. 101st Runner-UpInter IIT Technical Meet Boot Camp · Quant Finance · 200+ students
  6. 11College 2nd Runner-UpWorldQuant International Quant Championship · Global Top 20%
  7. 122nd Runner-UpInter-hostel Electricity Markets challenge · 12+ hostels
  8. 13Co-Author & HostBusiness Casebook 2nd Edition and C&A business podcasts
  9. 141st PositionInter-hostel Options Markets challenge · 12+ hostels
  10. 151st OverallWinter Consulting · 5,000+ participants
  11. 16Top 5%Product Matters Bootcamp · 5,000+ participants
  12. 17VolunteerUdgam entrepreneurship summit and Spirit annual sports festival
  13. 18Blue Blazer & Blue TieSix consecutive years of school excellence
  14. 19School Gold MedallistSOF Science & Mathematics Olympiads · 500+ students
  15. 20Head BoyLed initiatives for a junior wing of 500+ students
  16. 21Top 0.5%JEE Advanced · Top 0.8% in JEE Main among 1M+

Education

Academic record and relevant coursework.

B.Tech · Chemical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Department of Chemical Engineering · Class of 2027
8.14Current CPI · after 6 semesters

CBSE · Science with Computer Science

Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj

New Delhi
97.60%Class XII · School Rank 3
97.17%Class X · 2021

Relevant coursework

Courses most relevant to product, strategy and analytics.

AI & quantitative methods

  • Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  • Computer Aided Numerical Methods

Economics & commercial thinking

  • Process Engineering & Economics
  • Introductory Mathematical Economics
  • Introduction to Economic Growth

Chemical Engineering Core

  • Process Control & Instrumentation
  • Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Transport Phenomena

Working style

How I approach a project.

A belief I work by

Intelligence can win a moment. Consistency compounds into an advantage.

  1. 01
    Discover

    Understand the people, context and evidence before assuming the answer.

  2. 02
    Define

    Frame the decision, constraints and measure of success clearly.

  3. 03
    Develop

    Explore alternatives, test the smallest useful version and compare trade-offs.

  4. 04
    Deliver

    Execute, measure the outcome and use what changed to improve the next iteration.

Adapted from the Design Council’s Double Diamond
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Have a problem to solve—or just want to talk?

Whether it is a product question, an analytics problem, a strategy idea or simply a conversation, I would be glad to hear from you.

abhishekd.7006@iitg.ac.in