Vaibhav Bindroo

Accel Partners is a global venture capital and growth equity firm with $9B+ AUM and offices located in Silicon Valley, New York, London, China, and India. They typically make multi-stage investments in internet technology companies from inception through growth stages.

Responsibilities:

• Co-Led preparation of sector investment thesis on big data & analytics capturing global landscape.
• Evaluated deal opportunities and potential investments in Indian eco-system through hypothesis-driven investing
• Advised portfolio start-ups on market opportunity analysis, competitor analysis and market entry strategy

Fisheye Analytics is an INSEAD incubated start-up in niche media monitoring and analytics domain and based out of Singapore and Europe. It was founded by Prof Soumitra Dutta, current Dean of S.C.Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University along with a group of BITS and INSEAD alumni.

Fisheye Analytics was acquired by Kantar Media, a world leader in media analytics and insights, and a WPP company in 2013.

Responsibilities:

I was responsible for product ideation and design & development of reliable and scalable distributed solutions in media analytics, monitoring and intelligence domain.

Product Management and Development:

• Led cross-functional team across Asia and Europe to deliver a $100K+ social listening product for a leading digital media company.
• Conceptualized and implemented a Klout-like influence measurement service for 40M+ twitter user base leading to additional revenue stream
• Delivered a successful prototype for an early warning media monitoring prediction engine to detect potential threats for Summer Olympics 2012.
• Formulated & executed code reengineering of search engine systems; led to 27 % expansion in information coverage

Research:

• Built machine learning models and text classification algorithms for smarter information retrieval using R and Weka.

Specialties: Social media computation and analytics, big data, business intelligence, information retrieval, search engines, text classification, machine learning, predictive modelling.

D.E.Shaw & Co is a global top-tier Hedge fund firm with focus on investment management and technology and more than $33 billion in AUM as of July, 2014.

Leadership and Management:

• Led and managed product design and development of capital management and accounting platform for firm’s $5B institutional asset management business
• Responsible for liaison with business users and cross-functional teams for successful life cycle development and release of the product.
• Mentored junior members in the team and managed business knowledge wiki for on boarding and training.

Product Development

• Built a fund accounting platform from scratch to handle $500 million investment for separately managed accounts
• Championed complex and versatile investor fee structuring models for performance fee computation; led to 80% end user effort reduction.
• Conceived & implemented a novel fee computation engine reducing project operational cost by 50%
• Laid out fund liquidity restructuring strategy for investor redemptions; led to $M+ capital raise

Responsibilities:

• Key contributor in the entire SDLC of firm's new fund management and accounting platform for institutional asset management business of the firm. Designed architecture for overall engine including requirements definition, object modelling design, tier structure development, relational database design and integration testing.
• Designed and developed critical process features for fund performance indications leading to 25% overall performance improvement.
• Successfully implemented a common Audit and Authentication framework for platform-wide deployment resulting in reduced management overhead.
• Developed infrastructure for investor Invoices and payments platform and planned cross-vertical integration with downstream applications for end-to-end process integration.
• Envisaged and developed set based algorithms to handle universe of investor fee schedules, capital and proration computation models for batch computation replacing the existing single fund model of accounting.

Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise and is listed on NASDAQ with ticker ARUN.

• Offered Full time Role as a Software Engineer for excellent performance and initiatives.
• Designed and developed a reliable fallback layer for Aruba’s VPN SSL Client for tunneling IKE/IPSec packets over TCP when UDP access fails.
• Engineered a cross-platform library using OpenSSL and Windows SSPI modules for encapsulation and authentication against proxies and firewalls.

Areas of Interest : Strategy, Venture Capital and Technology

• Senior Coordinator, Events, Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cell, 2013
• Event Organizer, Eximius, Annual Entrepreneurship Festival of IIM Bangalore, 2013-14.

Attended Short Term Exchange Program in Cornell, USA during Fall, 2013.

• Co-Led cross-school team of 4 across India and US to deliver a consulting engagement for a Top 3 US online brokerage services major.

• Secretary, Computer Science Association, 2006-2007;

Led 90+ member team to organize events, workshops and seminars for students on campus.

• Core Organizing Committee, Apogee, Annual Technical Festival, 2007;
• Senior member, Computer Science Embryo Club, 2008.
• Silver Medalist, Hockey Team, Annual Sports Festival, BOSM, 2006.
• Placement Coordinator, Computer Science, 2007-08.

• State Rank 1, CBSE Class XII, J&K Region, 2004.
• Zonal Rank 3, Chandigarh Region, CBSE Class XII, 2004.

• State Rank 1, CBSE Class XII, J&K Region, 2002.
• Fellowship Recipient at Regional Research Laboratory RRL (CSIR), 2002.
• Regional Winner , State Science Olympiad, 2002.