Summary
Raunaq Sawhney is a Senior Product Manager specializing in FinCrime compliance and verifications, with 12 years of experience building pragmatic, scalable systems at the intersection of fintech, regulation, and product design. At Deel he transformed a minimal compliance program into a global operation, owning KYC/KYB, AML, risk scoring and transaction monitoring while balancing heavy regulatory constraints with usable user journeys. His background at Apple and Meta gives him systems-level engineering rigor—having shipped cellular and networking software and built data-center tooling—paired with hands-on product and data experience from Jobber and his own consumer startup. He blends technical fluency in systems and data engineering with strategic product leadership, often turning quiet operational controls into measurable business enablement. Raunaq holds advanced degrees in engineering and management from Waterloo and an MBA focused on digital transformation and analytics from UC Irvine. Based in Toronto and an avid traveler and design obsessive, he routinely shares his thinking publicly and prefers remote work when timezones align.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelors of Applied Science (BASc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Applied Science (BASc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo