Ajay Y.

Otto AI

CEO & Co-Founder

Simplified

Investor

Co-Founder

Forbes

30 under 30

Contributor

EvaBot Inc.

Advisor

Roomi

Founder

Roomi is a free website & app making it safer & easier to search for room rentals, sublets & roommates.

Forbes Real Estate Council

Founding Member

DADA Room

Chief Executive Officer

WEVE Acceleration (formerly NUMA New York)

Mentor

HuffPost

UPRISE Festival Europe

Now, I’m back in the founder seat, focusing on building a vertical AI SaaS startup. I will be building this venture in public, sharing my experiences and insights on growth and revenue strategies along the way.

In 2021, I co-founded Simplified, an AI-driven platform designed to support SMB marketing teams with content creation, distribution, and collaboration in one place. We raised over $14M from Khosla Ventures and Craft, scaled to over 17 million users.

I began my entrepreneurial journey as a solo founder, building a marketplace in New York to help people find roommates. This venture raised over $20M in capital, grew to over 5 million users, and reached profitability.

StockMock

Description:
- Collaborated with the engineering team to build internal tools for F&O strategy simulation and performance tracking.
- Contributed to defining backend requirements and data flows; supported REST API and Redis caching integration.
- Worked closely on product/marketing feedback loops, driving features like data filtering/grouping based on user behavior.
- Partnered with developers and analysts to optimize P&L engine outputs for strategic content use.

Growth Achievements:
- Led retention strategies, increasing user engagement by 25%.
- Scaled YouTube channel to 40K+ subscribers; generated over 5 videos with 100K+ views.
- Designed and executed campaigns that increased subscriptions and trial-to-paid conversions.
- Provided data-backed market insights to influence feature prioritization and messaging.

Growth & Technology Strategist

Systematic Solutions

- Developed a real-time market scanner that reduced decision-making time for manual traders from 15 minutes to 2 minutes by dynamically displaying filtered stock and options data on a web dashboard.
- Implemented scheduled execution via AWS Lambda with CloudWatch triggers, integrating directly with Zerodha/Fyers APIs for automated order placement
- Built a comprehensive notification system with Telegram alerts and error-handling fallback logic for trade monitoring.
- Manage 25Cr+ portfolio of HNI

Strategist

MarketScanner

Collaborated with founder Vishal Mehta to grow MarketScanner during the Covid pandemic, promoting a data-driven trading approach.
Scaled the Telegram community to 6,000+ members, YouTube to 7,000+ subscribers (editing and publishing content), and Instagram to 1,340 followers.
Managed digital marketing, SEO, and A/B testing, driving a 30% increase in user acquisition.
Developed analytics dashboards with exposure to APIs and backend workflows.

Growth Lead

I'm a backend developer with a unique journey—transitioning from a finance and trading background into backend engineering. Over the past 2+ years, I’ve built and contributed to trading platforms, learning hands-on technologies like Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and AWS along the way.

While working in finance, I developed a strong interest in automation , which led me to learn backend development. I upskilled myself through real-world projects and collaborations, where I built secure APIs, authentication systems, and real-time data tools.

At StockMock, I implemented RESTful APIs for strategy creation and backtesting and built secure authentication using JWT and role-based access.
Earlier at Systematic Solutions, I created a real-time stock scanner that cut decision-making time from 15 minutes to 2 minutes using dynamic dashboards.

Now, I'm fully focused on backend development — building scalable, efficient, and reliable systems that power data-driven applications.

🔍 I'm currently looking for opportunities as a backend developer, where I can contribute to product growth and continue to evolve as an engineer.

#NodeJS #Express #MongoDB #AWS #BackendDevelopment #TradingSystems

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