Nikhil Gupta
Managing Director at Värde Partners
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Gupta is a seasoned credit and investment leader with 10+ years building and scaling asset-based finance platforms, now serving as Managing Director at Värde Partners where he leads origination, structuring, and portfolio construction across consumer, small business, and specialty lending. He combines deep hands-on experience in model risk, underwriting, and loan-level analytics from roles at WebBank and Citi with private credit execution across the capital stack, including partnerships with banks, fintechs, and non-bank lenders. Nikhil has full-lifecycle ownership of structured credit solutions—from underwriting and documentation to monitoring, LLR frameworks, and exits—and a track record of mentoring global investment and analytics teams. An early open-source contributor (GSoC 2017) with full-stack Ruby on Rails experience on the popular openSUSE OSEM event manager, he brings a rare mix of quantitative rigor, product-minded engineering chops, and practical risk governance to lending innovation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiAISSE AISSE, AISSE AISSE at Bhavan Vidyalaya
Hindi, Punjabi, English
Github Skills (15)
conferencing10
eventsource10
ruby-rails10
eventing10
rails10
event-emitter10
video-conferencing10
event-sourcing10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
rspec9
javascript8
css7
sass7
git6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openSUSE/osem
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 16 PRs, 97 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil contributed to various aspects of the Open Source Event Manager, including backend logic, frontend improvements, and testing. They primarily focused on code style improvements using Rubocop, removing default values in registration, and refactoring date-related functionalities. The user also implemented word counting using Countable.js and improved the mobile UI sign-in process.
eventsevent-managementrailsrails-applicationtailored
nikhilgupta1211/Ngo
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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