CA · CFA · Azure AI Engineer · Bengaluru, India
Receipts,
not takes.
A Chartered Accountant who never learnt to code — and builds AI tools anyway. Years inside institutional finance: senior analyst at a global investment bank, OTC markets, then AI product. Now I build tools for Indian money problems, in public, and most of them are open source.
- Building automations since
- 2023 started on n8n
- Public repos
- 11 github.com/ca-who-codes
- Credentials
- CA · CFA + Azure AI Engineer
- Code written by hand
- ~0 that's the point
The work
Tools that do one thing, properly
The work
Anything finance-adjacent here reads and flags. It does not advise, recommend or transact — by design, not by omission.
The arc
Finance first. Code second. That order matters.
The arc
- Institutional finance Senior analyst, global investment bank
- Markets OTC — where the terms are negotiated, not listed
- Product AI product manager
- Since 2023 Automations — started on n8n, kept going
- Now Building AI tools in public
The scarce thing was never the code. It was knowing what the numbers should say before you write a line of it.
Financial rigour tells you what to build. Engineering tells you how. I spent years on the first half and picked up the second when it stopped requiring a co-founder — and India has 1.4 billion people with very little AI built for their actual lives. That gap is the whole thesis.
Notes
What I learned building it
Notes
- 4 min
The API that could buy but not sell
Four buys placed clean. Three sells failed with the same cryptic error. The asymmetry was the diagnosis — buying credits your demat account, selling needs the depository's standing permission.
- 5 min
Assume filled, allow correction
When someone mirrors a model book by hand, you cannot see their fills. Book the intent, stamp it 'assumed', and make provenance a field — because a rebalance that nets against a phantom position sells shares nobody holds.
- 4 min
Cash is a position, not a residue
'No trade' is a valid decision only when it names what is missing. The rule that stopped my book from quietly hoarding cash: a hard ceiling, and a ladder that must act above it.
04 · Work with me
GenAI product design, agentic systems, fintech AI.
I take on a small number of consulting engagements — product design for GenAI features, agentic Claude Code systems, and AI in financial workflows. If your problem is one I'd find interesting, say so plainly.