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rohan@tradepolaris ~ % whoami

> Rohan Rathod Trader. Builder. Co-founder.

A decade across quantitative trading, fintech, and DeFi. Currently building Polaris, a financial AI that knows the market — ask it in plain English, build strategies, backtest honestly — and Solistic Finance [Cubit], infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets.

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

location
London, UK
status
● in build mode
focus
Tokenized RWAs · ML & Robo-Advisor Models · Derivatives · Market Structure
$ ./contact $ cat career.log
Rohan Rathod, founder of Polaris and co-founder of Solistic Finance, in London
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RATHOD, R.
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/01

now_building

// active · two builds
BUILDING

Polaris

A financial AI that actually knows the market. Ask it anything in plain English and get charts, data, and cited sources back; build strategies declaratively; and backtest them honestly with overfitting detection — across 30,000+ tickers and six asset classes, on 20 years of survivorship-free data.

  • 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:      "financial AI research platform",
  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
LIVE

Solistic Finance [Cubit]

A protocol for issuing and trading synthetic exposure to real-world assets — treasuries, commodities, structured credit — paired with an AI wealth advisor that personalizes portfolio construction and rebalancing across these synthetic markets. On-chain settlement, institutional-grade compliance.

  • 01 Synthetic asset issuance & secondary liquidity
  • 02 AI wealth advisor — portfolio & rebalancing engine
  • 03 Oracle & pricing infrastructure
  • 04 Compliance & permissioned access rails
solistic.finance → cubit.trade → 
const solistic = {
  codename:  "Cubit",
  type:      "synthetic asset protocol",
  surface:   ["treasuries", "commodities", "credit"],
  products:  [
    "synthetic-asset-issuance",
    "ai-wealth-advisor",
    "oracle-infra",
    "compliance-rails",
  ],
  liquidity: "permissioned + open",
  chains:    "multi-chain",
  status:    "shipping",
};  // while (true) { build(); ship(); }
/02

also_building

// adjacent surfaces · in flight
BUILDING

Markov

A live signal feed for Indian equities — a SEBI-registered, multi-strategy quantitative stack running cross-sectionally across the full NSE universe.

markov.in → 
const markov = {
  type:     "equity research",
  surface:  "NSE universe",
  engine:   "multi-strategy quant",
  status:   "building",
};
BUILDING

Aureve

A premium dating app built around Aria — an AI matchmaker that treats attention as a market, filters toxic flow, and routes high-effort users to each other.

aureve.app → read the thesis → 
const aureve = {
  type:     "dating market",
  surface:  "attention",
  engine:   "Aria — ai matchmaker",
  role:     "market maker / quote",
  status:   "in build",
};
/03

career.log

// reverse chronological
  1. 2026.05 → now

    Polaris · founder

    A financial AI that knows the market — ask in plain English, build strategies, backtest honestly. 30k+ tickers, six asset classes; AI analyst, Vega.

  2. 2024.09 → now

    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 Volatility surfaces, options pricing, statistical arbitrage, time-series modelling, signal research and full backtesting infrastructure. vol-surfacesoptions-pricingstat-arb time-seriesbacktestingsignal-research
002 ml_systems Machine learning for alpha — sequence models for forecasting tick data, feature engineering pipelines, reinforcement learning for execution, and classifiers for toxic-flow detection. pytorchjaxtransformersxgboost RL-executionfeature-engnumpy/pandas
003 engineering Production trading systems and on-chain infrastructure. Low-latency execution, distributed data pipelines, exchange connectivity, and full-stack DeFi. pythonrusttypescriptsolidity anchor/solanawebsocketskdb/clickhousek8s
004 defi_protocols Synthetic asset systems, on-chain liquidity primitives, oracle design, tokenization standards and smart-contract architecture for institutional flow. synthetic-assetsRWAERC-3643/1400 oracle-designEVMcustody-int
005 market_microstructure Spread & inventory models, adverse-selection mitigation, cross-venue arbitrage, on-chain MM across AMMs and perpetual DEXs. AMM-LPperp-DEX-MMlatency-aware toxic-flow-filterkyle/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 tokenized real-world assets, market structure, derivatives, and institutional crypto.

rohan@tradepolaris ~ % mail
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.