Sunit Gautam is a founder and AI-driven risk specialist with eight years of experience building ML and data products for financial services, most recently leading fraud prevention strategy for Apple Card within Goldman Sachs. As Co-Founder & CEO of Modus AI he’s focused on applying AI to real-world risk and compliance problems for Indian financial institutions, backed by a WTFund grant. He previously built onboarding and fraud-detection capabilities that scaled to millions of customers and billions in credit exposure, blending technical product leadership with hands-on Python/C++ and big-data engineering. Earlier startup work includes co-founding an AI-powered waste-reporting app that reached national finals and filed a patent for CV algorithms, demonstrating his ability to ship interdisciplinary teams and models to production. An IIT Kanpur engineer and CFA Level 2 candidate, Sunit pairs strong quantitative rigor with business strategy and hiring for founding engineers. Off the clock he’s a competitive powerlifter who competed at the World Powerlifting Championships, reflecting the discipline he brings to product and team building.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
CFA L2 Candidate, Finance, 90+ percentile rank in CFA-L1, top grade (70%+ marks) in 9/10 subjects, CFA L2 Candidate, Finance, 90+ percentile rank in CFA-L1, top grade (70%+ marks) in 9/10 subjects at CFA Institute
Class X, CBSE Board, 10.0/10.0 CGPA, Class X, CBSE Board, 10.0/10.0 CGPA at Navrachana Sama, Vadodara
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Class XII, CBSE Board, 97.4%, Class XII, CBSE Board, 97.4% at Delhi Public School, Panipat Refinery Township, Panipat
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