ASHISH SRIVASTAVA

As part of the founding team, worked to build an AI-driven financial advisory platform aimed at democratizing high-quality wealth advice through intelligent models and accessible pricing.

• Testing multiple strategies to identify right set of portfolio strategies
• Wear multiple hats in everyday work, signing key partnerships to get the right set of data
• Designed, implemented, and stress-tested proprietary quantitative financial models.
• Worked on - Portfolio construction frameworks, Risk modeling, Return optimization logic, Advisory automation workflows
• Managed offline advisory desk operations, supporting high-net-worth and retail clients
• Built trust-led advisory model scaling to ₹100 Cr Assets Under Advice (AUA)

Led multi-product engineering execution within the SMBC organization, driving delivery excellence across cybersecurity and endpoint protection platforms.

• Lead engineering teams across Carbonite Endpoint Protection (CEP), Carbonite Safe Server Backup (CSSB), and ARM product suites.
• Recruited and scaled high-performing engineering teams across three product lines.
• Owned end-to-end release execution - from requirements shaping to architecture reviews, planning, and final delivery.
• Partnered closely with Product Management to define release scope, prioritize high-impact features, and align execution with strategic roadmap
• Drove architectural discussions and design reviews ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient product evolution
• Strengthened cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product, QA, and leadership
  

AI & Innovation Leadership

• Mentored teams to participate in SMBC-wide Hackathon
• Lead 3 AI-driven innovation entries; 2 shortlisted to finals
• Solutions focused on: AI-enhanced early threat detection
  while doing end point protection of a device

Organization-Level Leadership

Margdarshak Program Lead (SMBC – OpenText)

• Led and scaled the organization-wide mentorship program.
• Reviewed and shortlisted applicants across departments.
• Collaborated with senior leaders across OpenText to match mentees with high-impact mentors.
• Recognized by leadership for driving strong engagement and measurable mentorship outcomes.
• Significantly improved cross-functional leadership visibility and talent growth

• Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation.
• Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, procedures and performance strategies.
• Applied customer feedback to develop process improvements and support long-term business needs.
• Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
• Resolved staff member conflicts, actively listening to concerns and finding appropriate middle ground.
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.

As a manager & lead responsible for all development deliverables for Sterling’s flagship product B2B Integrator from India lab

• Own the Engineering delivery commitments and releases.
• Responsible for significant development deliverables for IBM Sterling’s flagship product B2B Integrator from India lab
• Responsible for leading development and maintenance of B2BAC, which generate multi million dollars in revenue for IBM. Engaging with customers and represent them within the lab.
• Team management that includes functional responsibilities, performance management, hiring, recognition et al.