Aniket Das is co-founder and CTO of Starch, where he owns product and engineering. His work is the technology that gives a banking desk leverage over its own grunt work: the agents and automations that absorb the repetitive half of the week, and the judgment about what a system is allowed to assert on its own.
He came to finance from medicine, by way of one unfamiliar field after another. At RefleXion Medical he worked on the imaging and dose calibration behind a radiotherapy platform built to treat metastatic cancer, which is software with a patient on the other side of it and no room for a confident wrong answer. Alongside it he built companies of his own: Milburn in consumer mental health, QMX AI in manufacturing quality, FlashFacts in live fact-checking, and Hey Akua, free mental health support delivered over WhatsApp in Ghana, whose schools program ran under Ghanaian government approval. The range across those fields is what he draws on when a new desk turns out to work nothing like the last one.
He has built in San Francisco, New York and London. He won a Founders Inc hackathon as one of five teams from a field of 340, and has judged others alongside panels drawn from Google DeepMind, Meta and AWS.
He holds a Guinness World Record for the most Pyraminx puzzles solved in one hour: 636 of them, roughly one every six seconds without a break, set in Mumbai as the record's first successful attempt. Four consecutive Indian national titles, a world championship bronze and an Asian championship silver sit behind it, from eight years on the World Cube Association circuit. The habit it built is the one the engineering here runs on: measure the thing, then take it apart until it is faster.
What Aniket Das writes about. How software earns the right to do a banker's work. The engineering behind taking the grunt work off a desk, and what a system has to prove before a firm trusts it with something that matters.