Rushi Luhar, Product Manager in Arlington, VA, United States

Rushi Luhar

Product Manager

Location
Arlington, VA, United States
Toptal Member Since
February 4, 2022

Rushi has worked at the intersection of product and technology at some of the world's largest investment banks and early-stage technology startups. He has been a technical product manager, software engineer, business analyst, engineering manager, and CTO. He has experience building and scaling SaaS companies and experience in financial technology and capital markets. Rushi advises startup founders, executives, and angel investors on product and technology strategy.

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Project Highlights

Product and Technology Strategy at an Early-stage Startup
Led the design and development of a SaaS application that used natural language processing and machine learning to analyze the customer service data.
Low-latency Algorithmic FX Pricing System
Rearchitected the FX pricing system that drove billions of dollars of volume for a large investment bank to reduce end-to-end latency by 20x and move to a resilient, distributed architecture.

Expertise

AdvisoryDistributed SystemsPeople ManagementProduct ManagementSoftware EngineeringStartupsTechnical Product ManagementTechnology Strategy & Architecture

Work Experience

2020 - PRESENT

Chief Technology Officer

eCare Vault
  • Collaborated with the CEO to define product and technology roadmap and resourcing strategy.
  • Managed a remote product and technology team distributed between the US and India.
  • Delivered the CEO's channel partnership strategy, leading to a significant partnership with a dominant technology company.
  • Reduced technology infrastructure and talent costs by 30% through optimizing cloud costs and realigning team with strategic priorities.
2018 - PRESENT

Vice President, Strategy and Technology

Jeavio
  • Helped scale the company from 30 to 200 engineers by designing recruitment, onboarding, and training strategy.
  • Supported business development, acted as a relationship manager, and performed technology due diligence, leading to significant revenue growth at Jeavio and the number of investments made in early-stage startups.
  • Acted as a fractional CTO and technology and product advisor to Jeavio's portfolio companies, helping them raise significant capital and determine the product, technology, and resourcing strategy.
  • Managed marketing, Jeavio's website, and social media strategy. Grew LinkedIn followers to over 4,000 through writing content, running campaigns, and optimizing for talent and (potential) client engagement.
2017 - 2018

Chief Technology Officer

SentiSum
  • Redesigned and implemented a machine learning platform using state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques.
  • Defined the product strategy and hired and managed a small team of product managers, analysts, data scientists, and developers.
  • Helped raise a successful seed round from angel and institutional investors.
2014 - 2017

Engineering Manager | Associate Director

RBC
  • Delivered a long-term re-architecture and performance improvement program for algorithmic FX pricing and risk management platform, resulting in a 10x reduction in end-to-end latency.
  • Designed and implemented integrations between RBC's FX trading platforms with third-party providers for algorithmic execution, risk management, and trade booking.
  • Worked closely with FX traders, quantitative analysts, and engineers to translate business strategy to (actioned) technology roadmaps.
2008 - 2013

Associate Director | Tech Lead

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
  • Joined as an early member of the team that designed and built Bank of Tokyo's automated FX pricing, trading, and risk management platform that led to significant revenue growth.
  • Designed and implemented distributed platform to hand over risk between London, New York, and Tokyo to enable 24x5 operation of the trading platform.
  • Hired, trained, and managed a small team of software engineers in Tokyo, working closely with quantitative researchers to implement pricing and risk management algorithms.

Project History

Product and Technology Strategy at an Early-stage Startup

Led the design and development of a SaaS application that used natural language processing and machine learning to analyze the customer service data.

Joined as the first employee and CTO and helped technology and product strategy, including choosing technologies such as Python, spaCy, and React, developing the core product, hiring product, data science, and engineering teams, and helping raise a successful seed round.

Low-latency Algorithmic FX Pricing System

Rearchitected the FX pricing system that drove billions of dollars of volume for a large investment bank to reduce end-to-end latency by 20x and move to a resilient, distributed architecture.

Planned, designed, and implemented a long-running project to retire a legacy FX pricing system and replace it with a modern, event-driven, distributed system. The project reduced end-to-end latency from a median of 100 milliseconds to under five milliseconds and resulted in significant savings in licensing and support costs.

Streamline Product Delivery For Series A Startup

Reorganized product planning and prioritization process using a pragmatic Agile framework. Reduced the technology costs by 30% through streamlining the offshore delivery team and optimizing cloud costs.

I was approached to work as a part-time CTO for a Series A startup in the edtech space. Over my tenure, I made the following contributions:

• Helped the startup pivot to a channel partner-led distribution strategy.
• My work led to significant non-dilutionary investment in the company by a dominant channel partner.
• The Microsoft Teams application built by my team was featured in Microsoft's Build conference in 2021.
• Executed a successful cloud migration from AWS to Azure.

Education

2003 - 2004

Master's Degree in Computer Science

University of Warwick - Coventry, United Kingdom

2000 - 2003

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Warwick - Coventry, United Kingdom