Anand Kesavan

Anand Kesavan

CTO at Multibagg AI | Ex-Goldman Sachs | IIT Bombay

11 years in Quantitative Finance and Software Engineering

Bangalore, 2026–

CTO at Multibagg AI

Institutional-grade AI research for retail investors.
RAG, agentic workflows, LLMs at scale.

2025–26

Solo-Builder at Quest

iOS and Android apps.
Workouts from strength models.
Personalized LeetCode paths.

Bangalore, 2022–25

ALM Quant Lead at Goldman Sachs

Built and led a team of 11 Strats as VP.
Remodelled liquidity transfer to cut residual PnL.

Mumbai, 2021–22

Rates Quant at JP Morgan Chase

Rate curves in Athena, JPM's pricing and risk platform.

Bangalore, 2019–21

Treasury Quant at Goldman Sachs

PnL projection tools for CCAR and business planning.

Mumbai, 2017–19

Barra Quant Validator at MSCI

Rebuilt Barra's analytical testing framework.
MATLAB and Python number crunching.

Mumbai, 2015–17

BarraOne SDE at MSCI

Performance Attribution as a service.
Job-queueing simulator.

2013–14

College Internships (IIT-B)

Network Design at InDSP, Bangalore
Audio Consultant at ACPAD, Mumbai
Lecturer at Plancess, Mumbai

Finance
Engineering
Calibre

Beyond the Timeline

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Music

  • Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist
  • Co-founded IIT Bombay's contingent band
  • Won Inter-IIT, played for 10,000 at Mood Indigo
  • Hostel Cultural Colour three years running
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Strength Training

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