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rohan@tradepolaris ~ % whoami

> Rohan Rathod Trader. Builder. Founder.

A decade across quantitative trading, fintech, and DeFi. Currently building TradePolaris, a financial risk and research terminal for investment desks: ask the market in plain English, build strategies, backtest honestly, and stress the book you actually hold.

while (true) { push(boulder); } // one must imagine Sisyphus happy

location
London, UK
status
● in build mode
focus
Systematic Research · Portfolio Risk · Derivatives · Market Structure
$ ./contact $ cat career.log
Rohan Rathod, founder of TradePolaris and former co-founder of Solistic Finance, in London
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RATHOD, R.
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/01

now_building

// active · one build
BUILDING

TradePolaris

A financial risk and research terminal for investment desks. Portfolio managers research investments with Vega, check portfolio risk with Aegis, and test proposed trades before they hit the book.

  • 01 Ask — query the market in plain English
  • 02 Vega — AI research analyst, multi-step studies
  • 03 Aegis — portfolio risk engine: VaR, stress, factors
  • 04 Strategy builder + honest walk-forward backtests
  • 05 Live markets, paper trading & finance apps
tradepolaris.com → read the thesis → 
const polaris = {
  type:      "AI risk + research terminal",
  surface:   ["6 asset classes", "30k+ tickers", "macro"],
  ask:       "plain English → charts + sources",
  agent:     "Vega — ai research analyst",
  risk:      "Aegis — portfolio risk engine",
  products:  [
    "ask",
    "aegis-risk",
    "strategy-builder",
    "walk-forward-backtest",
    "markets + paper-trading",
    "finance-apps",
  ],
  data:      "20yr · survivorship-free",
  status:    "building",
};  // the edge decays — you rebuild it, forever
/02

also_built

// adjacent surfaces · earlier loops
BUILT Solistic Finance [Cubit] synthetic RWA protocol solistic.finance → cubit.trade →
BUILT Markov quant signal feed, NSE equities markov.in →
/03

career.log

// reverse chronological
  1. 2026.05 → now

    TradePolaris · founder

    financial risk and research terminal for investment desks: research with Vega, portfolio risk with Aegis, test proposed trades.

  2. 2024.09 — 2026.08

    Solistic Finance [Cubit] · co-founder

    Synthetic asset infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, multi-chain.

  3. 2020.05 — 2024.09

    Market Maker · independent

    Multi-venue liquidity provisioning across crypto spot, perpetuals, and options.

  4. 2021.11 — 2022.12

    Scallop Group · chief product officer

    Digital banking app — scaled to 100,000 customers within 60 days of launch.

  5. 2017.12 — 2019.12

    BCF Fund · founder

    $4.5M initial AUM, growing to $20M under management.

  6. 2015.05 — 2017.11

    Cefy Financial · co-founder

    Credit-scoring application adopted by 4 top banks across India and Singapore.

  7. 2013 — 2016

    IIT Bombay · computer science & engineering

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Computer Science & Engineering.

/04

stack

// capabilities · technical
idmodulefocustooling
001 quant_research Vol surfaces, options pricing, stat-arb, backtesting. vol-surfacesstat-arbbacktesting
002 ml_systems Sequence models, RL execution, toxic-flow classifiers. pytorchjaxxgboost
003 engineering Low-latency trading systems and on-chain infra. pythonrusttypescript
004 defi_protocols Synthetic assets, oracles, tokenization standards. RWAERC-3643EVM
005 market_microstructure Spread and inventory models, cross-venue MM. AMM-LPperp-DEX-MMkyle/glosten
career.summary // rolling lifetime
aum.peak $20M+ ▲ trading fund
users.acquired 100,000 ▲ in 60 days · neobank
years.in_market 10yr — since 2015
volume.generated $20B+ ▲ market making · multi-venue
/06

contact

// open inbox

Open to conversations on systematic research, portfolio risk, derivatives, market structure, and honest backtesting. Tokenized real-world assets and institutional crypto.

rohan@tradepolaris ~ % ls ./socials
rohan@tradepolaris ~ % cat ./press
rohan@tradepolaris ~ % cat ./ethos 
while (true) { push(boulder); }
// the edge decays. you rebuild it.
// one must imagine Sisyphus happy.