Devraj Hom Roy

Devraj Hom Roy

Global Liaison and Product Designer at Workload Estimator tool

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Early stage fintech VC @ Accion Venture Lab

  • Education

    • Carmel School

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      ICSE
    • Tezpur University

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      Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) CSE

      Activities and Societies: Valedictorian, Robotics Society

    • Indian School of Business

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      PGP (MBA) Finance and Strategy

      Activities and Societies: Nurture India Scholar, President of the Net Impact Club

  • Experience

    • IBM

      Jan 2013 - Jan 2015
      Global Liaison and Product Designer at Workload Estimator tool

      Core member of the Workload Estimator (WLE) development team. The first team ever within IBM STG Worldwide to have completely transitioned from US Ownership to 100% India Ownership. We oversaw the entire transition and helped to make it seamless. My responsibilities include:● Managed and led funding relations with three internal stakeholders worth $55,000.● Transitioned the project from a Raleigh based project to an offshore based one creating a surplus of $20,000 – thereby, transitioning to the role of global liaison for the product● Coordinated and managed 14 National stakeholders for their need assessment and implementation design.● Led the overhaul of the legacy frame-work to a RESTframework.The technical responsibilities include -1. Design and maintenance of the Workload Estimator Tool - MVC Architecture with Dojo as UI enchancer.2. POC and overhaul of legacy code to revamp into a web services model - REST.3. POC and introduction of test-framework to increase robust of the product - Selenium for UI and JUnit for Engine test.4. Programming new features based on the requests by our stakeholders.5. Optimizing WLE's performance.6. Maintaining the head and stream of the codebase before, during and after each release.7. Maintaining the "health" of all our servers and to facilitate build and deploy. Show less

    • Team Krishna

      Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
      Strategy and Machine Learning Lead
    • Teach For India

      Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
      Fellow

      ● Ramped up impact by launching vocational training; reduced labour intensity by introducing excel to teachers for grading operations● Achieved 1.5x increase in English by exposing students to international students through video conferencing– as the digitization project● Implemented process optimization in midday meal disbursement by implementing distribution centre acting as hub for three schools● Restructured the teacher performance management framework by involving the school management committee as an evaluator● Achieved growth of 2 grade level in RC and 40% in Math over a span of 12 months● Helped 144 sixth, seventh and eighth graders have an overall percentage 60% in Math in my second year.● Mentored and Coached the football and kho-kho team to win the KKM League out of 229 teams.● Led the Delhi ed-tech landscape as the fellow-lead by managing 6 live tech interventions in classrooms across the city.● Raised ₹120,000 through a public fundraiser for the classroom library, supplies and infrastructure.● Member of the ​Fellow recruitment committee ​to select bright and driven fellows to the cohort of 2016. Show less

    • Sattva Consulting

      May 2016 - Jun 2016
      Summer Consultant

      ● Designed Need Assessment Framework for a CSR project of Asian Paints worth ₹80,00,000● Designed the tech-landscape for a school intervention project of Microland worth ₹75,00,000 ● Designed the Standard Operating Procedure for youth mobilization for a skill building project of UNDP and MAVIM.● YES Foundation Fellowship curriculum structure, design and facilitation.

    • Kaleidofin Private Limited

      Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
      Assistant Vice President

      Donned hats in a lot of 0 to 1 tasks but primarily headed the D2C channel and developed a new line of business (B2B) of credit scoring for NBFCs.

    • MSC

      Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
      Management Consultant

      Management consultant in the Asia team, leading engagements with large public-sector banks and differentiated banks as well as advising early-stage fintechs and healthtechs as part of The FI Lab. Few highlights include-> Leading a strategy and operations transformation project for a large differentiated bank (53 mn customers with USD 29 mn in annual revenue) in India leading to a 7x increase in revenue two years.> Advising the post-merger harmonisation of operating models of two large public-sector banks in India resulting in the 7th largest public-sector bank with over USD 81 billion in assets> Developing the go-to-market strategy of a fintech platform focused on offering relevant financial products to the blue-collared salaried segment> Supporting an early-stage earned wage access (EWA) fintech in developing it's flagship product and taking the product to the market> Supporting a healthtech in understanding consumer preferences and attaining a product-market fit. Assisted the healthtech in developing a medical use-case linked BNPL as well. Show less

    • GoTo Financial

      Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
      Product Strategy - Consumer Lending

      Consumer Lending included three products- GoPayLater (BNPL), Cicil (EMI-product), and GoPay Pinjam (Cash loans)

    • Accion

      Apr 2023 - now
      Senior Manager, Portfolio

      Portfolio at Accion Venture Lab

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • IBM Worklight Mobile Application Development

      IBM
      Nov 2014
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    • Investment Advisor Level 1

      National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM)
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Devraj Hom Roy
      Class of 18, Torchbearer Award Indian School of Business Apr 2018
    • Awarded to Devraj Hom Roy
      Winner of JLF Shorty 2015 Zee Jaipur Literature Festival Jan 2015 Jaipur Literature Festival #jlfshortyA short story has to be submitted in a single tweet with the competition being open to global participation. The entries can be viewed at my twitter profile.Details can be viewed here:http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/zee-jaipur-literature-festival-2015-jlfshorty-6139.htmlhttp://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/jlfshorty-competition-winners-7508.html
    • Awarded to Devraj Hom Roy
      State Topper at International Assesment for Indian Schools University of New South Wales 2006
    • Awarded to Devraj Hom Roy
      Gold Medalist LG 7th National Science Olympiad 2004
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Fellow recruitment committee

      Issued by Teach For India on Nov 2015
      Teach For IndiaAssociated with Devraj Hom Roy
    • Teach For India fellow for mobilization

      Issued by McKinsey Social Initiative on Jan 2016
      McKinsey Social InitiativeAssociated with Devraj Hom Roy