Faster Than Normal

Built a social audience of 750k+ people and write to 70k weekly via my newsletter, Faster Than Normal.

Founder

Airtree

Scout for ~$1.3bn fund. Invested in 15 companies.

Scout

Zipline.io

Started as a business development rep and finished leading the Go-to-market for United States market entry.

Go-To-Market

Goldman Sachs

Mergers and acquisitions, equity capital raising, debt capital raising, and project finance.

Investment Banking Division

Koala AI | Argonaut Capital | Australian Water Polo

• 2024-present: Maple (Co-Founder/Advisor)
• 2024-present: Athyna (Investor/Advisor)
• 2024-present: Co Ventures LP
• 2023-2024: Koala AI (Co-founder) (exited 2024)
• 2023-2024: Aura Ventures, Build Club
• 2021-2021: Ammo Marketing, Growth Marketer
• 2021-2021: Isolabs, Growth Marketer: sold $1m of super-computed NFTs
• 2018-2018: Beanstalk AgTech
• 2016-2017: Finance Association of Western Australia, Co-President
• 2016-2017: 180 Degrees Consulting
• 2016-2017: Argonaut Capital
• 2016-2016: PricewaterhouseCoopers 
• 2015-2017: Boarding House Master, Water Polo Coach
• 2015-2016: Western Australian Institute of Sport, Water Polo
• 2015-2016: Australian Water Polo Team

Prior experiences

Exploring how to get better at the game of life and sharing my learnings so you can do the same. | 650k+ audience

Personal website: alexbrogan.com.
Assorted writings: alexbrogan.substack.com.
My thoughts on AI: thelastinvention.ai.

Alex Brogan

NatWest Group

Division - C&I Data Engineering

• Spearheaded the onboarding of 300+ data jobs into the batch framework, collaborating with
 relationship bankers and data analysts to optimize business processes and ensure seamless
 operational integration.
 • Automated job orchestration and scheduling workflows using Airflow, enabling seamless batch
 communications across 200+ teams and ensuring reliable data delivery for critical bank opera
tions.
 • Built monitoring utilities overseeing 3,000+ batch workflows, detecting and communicating
 failures in real-time, reducing operational downtime by 30%.
 • Enhanced batch job performance and resource utilization by optimizing configurations and parti
tioning strategies, supporting data pipelines that directly impact £100–200M in bank operations
 annually

Software Engineer

Division: Commercial MLOps

 • Built and deployed a GPT-4-based POC tool for PDF metric extraction, achieving 95%
 accuracy and driving cross-team adoption by demonstrating significant time savings in reporting
 processes.
 • Led the migration of 1,000+ lines of SQL code to PySpark, enabling scalable data processing
 and reducing runtime bottlenecks.
 • Performed data quality testing with PyDeequ, executing Null, Uniqueness, String Pattern, and Time Series checks to ensure data reliability.
 • Designed and implemented unit tests for PySpark pipelines using Pytest, achieving 90% code
 coverage and ensuring robust, production-ready code.

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

Assisted in the administration of Foundations of Marketing course to Prof Pinaki Dasgupta.

Teaching Assistant

Assisting in the smooth administration of the UG+PG course, Urban Space and Political Power.

Complex Systems Laboratory

Under Dr. Ganesh Bagler | Final BTech Project

 • Explored the intersection of computational techniques and text generation, focusing on creating meaningful prose and poetry.
 • Developed deep learning models (RNNs, LSTMs, GANs, Transformers) to generate song lyrics with style- and content-based constraints.
 • Curated a lyrics corpus from 20 artists and evaluated model outputs using BLEU, GLEU, and NIST metrics to measure quality and coherence.

Project Title: Data-Driven Song Lyrics Generation and Evaluation.

Undergraduate Student Researcher | BTech Thesis Student 

Indian School of Business

Research Intern | Centre of Business Markets

Department :- Centre for Analytical Finance ( CAF ) ISB, NSE - ISB Trading Lab. 
Professor :- Dr Prasanna Tantri
Mentor :- Aditya Murlidharan

Projects
• Designed and implemented a scoring model for CRIF to evaluate and rank 50+ lending firms
 (listed and unlisted) by leveraging NLP techniques (stemming, lemmatization, tokenization).
 • Created a case study for the Bank of Maharashtra, computed key banking ratios, and visualized
 macroeconomic data to provide actionable insights.

Short Coursework (for Undergraduate Interns)
• Asset Pricing and Investment Strategy: Nishant Kashyap FPM Scholar ISB (PhD equivalent) 
• Accounting: Sriniwas Mahopatra FPM Scholar ISB (PhD equivalent)

Research Intern | Centre of Analytical Finance

GDSC IIITD - Google Developer Student Clubs

For a brief period I was the management head for all the technical events pertaining to the GDSC chapter  at IIIT Delhi. Was able to furnish and work on my administrative skills into delegation of tasks and copywriting, where in a huge part of my work involved getting people together ( peers and juniors alike) for organizing technical events for the junior cohorts in my college.

Management Head 

Casually Serious Media

Jumped on the Content Creation bandwagon, from which I explored my niche for podcasting and copywriting while working for the entire page. We were able to consistently generate high quality content by weekly producing an episode every week, and we were able to run for two complete seasons. Stemming from our own experiences from being International students in an inferior culture altogether, we began our podcasting venture to share our own theme of learning from this culture shock as well as having to quickly pace adulting in unfamiliar situations. 

We were able to engage and delegate a couple of high-schoolers into their own first content creation internship experience. 

Through this podcast, I was able to network with several high-performing individuals in their niches while learning from their entire journey, this growing experience has made the conviction firmer pertaining to how remote is indeed the future of work, and there’s no denying the amount of growth one can have with just a laptop at their perusal. 

Towards the end, we produced 17 well received episodes. 

Would be more than happy to guide anyone who’s looking to kickstart their own podcasting page but aren’t well versed with the technicalities of it. Feel free to DM!

Founder | Co-Host | Writer

Bank Muscat

Was engaged as an internship trainee at one of the largest proprietary books of the Middle East. Consistently ranked as the Best Bank of Oman and among Forbes’ top listed firms. 
Departments I was engaged with as a trainee. 
1. Finance 
2. Capital Markets 
3. Global Finance Institutions 
4. Risk Management

Internship Trainee

Batch representative of CSAM 2019-2020 in the Student Council. I was a part of the council which is held responsible for voicing out the concerns and the on-goings of day to day activities in the institution for the benefit of the students.

Batch Representative | Student Council 

Smart India Hackathon 2020

Winner 

As a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, my journey has led me to a challenging role as a Software Engineer at NatWest Group. Here, my focus is on leveraging MLOps and Data Science to drive innovation in the Commercial and Institutional Data & Analytics division.

Our team's efforts are geared towards transforming data into actionable insights that support strategic decisions. My commitment to excellence, nurtured through academic honors like the Kanak Khimji Award, and practical experience from winning the SIH 2020, underpins my dedication to delivering cutting-edge solutions within the finance sector.

If you are looking for opportunities with NatWest Group. Reach out over a connection request sharing your Job-ID, Email and Full name. Would be happy to refer you!

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