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rohan@tradepolaris ~ % whoami

> Rohan Rathod Trader. Builder. Founder.

A decade across quantitative trading, fintech, and DeFi. Currently building Polaris, an AI 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 Polaris 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

Polaris

An AI 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

    Polaris · founder

    AI 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
/05

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.