AKSHAT GOYAL +91 789 822 9495 | akshatgo@iitk.ac.

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Incoming Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company (Starting November 2023)
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Year Qualification Institution Performance
2019 - Present B.Tech (Materials Science and Engineering) Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 8.3/10.0
2019 Class 12th – CBSE Board New Greenfield Public Academy Indore, M.P. 90.2 %
2017 Class 10th – ICSE Board GEMS Modern Academy, Dubai, U.A.E. 93.4 %

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Protium Finance | Business Analyst Intern May’22 – Jul’22
Founded by Ex-BCG, GS partners | USD 200+ million AUM | Received Letter of Recommendation for excellent performance
• Only intern selected to work in the CFO’s office from 10 interns to prepare 12 financial dashboards for RBI & stakeholder reporting
Overview
• Managed 1 million + disbursed loans’ data to prepare 2 dynamic monthly amortization schedules minimizing monthly reconciliation
• Analysed 10 live master tables with 60+ data columns to prepare financial logic and apply 7 bucketing filters and functionalities
Approach • Automated INR 30 billion + worth loans’ data analysis by customized SQL queries to minimize finance team’s manual work to zero
• Facilitated 50% reduction in time complexity of dashboard computation by applying future-ready bucket centralization techniques
• Promptly available 15 financial summaries generating in <1 minute reducing load time by 99.99%, with added bucket centralization
Impact
• Saved 1200+ hours annually from dynamic reports and schedules and reduced month-end reconciliation process redundancy
Child Rights and You | Project Supervisor Dec’21 – Feb’22
Objective • Identify shortcomings in NGO’s resource allocation and volunteer management systems to suggest technical improvements
• Shortlisted top 3 volunteer management portals after studying 50+ portals based on the needs and requirements shared by CRY
Approach
• Suggested a SMOTE based ML mechanism for organization to identify potential school dropouts to improve resource allocation
Impact • Recommendations accepted and in trial by organization impacting 0.68 million unprivileged children and 4600+ active volunteers

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
IIT Kanpur Consulting Group | Group Leader Jul’21 – Jun’22
• Led team of 25 students to support for-profit and not-for-profit organizations through strategy consulting & AI-ML based solutions
Leadership • Liaised with 40+ start-ups and social organizations to acquire 6 new strategy, growth and AI-ML based data science assignments
• Administered deployment of a Google AI for Social Good project in collaboration with CARE India NGO funded with USD 30,000
• Engaged 5000+ students through 5 workshops, 3 seminars and 2 competitions focussing on management consulting & data science
Initiatives • Collaborated with 11 Product Managers at 4 Indian unicorn start-ups to support 90+ final year students preparing for placements
• Prepared 6-month marketing campaign and timeline for ‘Vidyanjali’ initiative of Government of India’s New Education Policy 2020
• Navjyoti – Impacted 27,000+ pupils through Learning Management System selection & integration for NGO’s education campaigns
Projects • Foyer.work – Helped start-up raise USD 1 million funding by performing product competitive analysis and investor engagement
• RTIwala – Aided start-up in AI-integration of RTI filing portal recognized and launched in guidance of Government of Maharashtra
Inter IIT Tech Meet 11.0 | Overall Coordinator Apr’22 - Present
• Administered a 3-tier team to conceptualize a 3-day event involving 22 IITs and reaching 40,000+ students & professors across IITs
Leadership
• Procured a budget of INR 3 million through marketing & sponsorship to conduct 15 tech competitions for 2000+ participants
• Liaised with 50+ organizations to develop 13 tech problem statements in 20 domains of science, technology & entrepreneurship
Initiatives • Facilitated hospitality for 600+ attendees and planned 4 networking events to engage students with 50+ technologists
• Improved engagement through 3 targeted social media campaigns expanding reach across IITs, Industries and Government of India
• Organized competitions in collaboration with ISRO to contribute novel solutions to government R&D problems
Impact
• Proposed 20+ robust solutions to improve Intensive Care Unit (ICU) surgery operations technologically for an Indian Start-Up

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Role of Outcome Valence in Sequential Planning | SURGE Intern May’21 – Aug’21
Objective • Use 2 stimuli data; audio and visual tracking data to test the role of outcome valence (positive/negative) in sequential planning
• Examined 10+ research papers to explore eye movement tracking softwares for online remote psychophysical tracking experiments
Approach • Designed and configured a 3-step experiment on JsPsych & PsychoPy softwares to develop tracking task and ambient environment
• Pilot data from 5+ users showed positive correlation between valence outcome and sequential movement decision making of user
Outcome • End-Term Report & Video Presentation accepted by SURGE committee and recommended for SURGE 2021 certification and display

INTER-IIT COMPETITIONS
Event Result Highlights Year
Sustainable Supply Chain Challenge GOLD Medal • Led team of 10 students to cut FMCG carbon emissions sustainably
• Explored 3 domains; Warehouse, Transport & Packaging on 5-year scale 2022
Inter IIT Tech Meet, IIT Kharagpur (Amongst 22 IITs)
Growth Strategy for Metaverse BRONZE Medal • Devised USD 2 million marketing strategy for upcoming VR start-up
2022
Inter IIT Tech Meet, IIT Kharagpur (Amongst 22 IITs) • Collaborated with 5 students to present pitch in virtual reality set-up

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITES
International • Amongst top 450 selected from 12,000+ people invited to Yale University, USA at World Scholars Cup at Bangkok, Thailand in 2016
Awards • Conferred with the Bronze Standard of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award for all-round excellence in 4 diverse activities
• Founded a 600+ member Departmental Stannum Society to engage & promote MSE research & technology awareness in campus
Entrepreneurial • Launched ‘Management Consulting & Product’ wing under IIT Kanpur Consulting Group with 3 relevant projects completed in 2022
• Lawn Tennis Team Secretary for 2 consecutive years in 2020-22 , represented sport at institute councils and national competitions
Lawn Tennis
• Member of IIT Kanpur’s Men’s Lawn Tennis Team Practice with competitive experience at college, club and school level since 2013
• Worked on 15+ journalistic, survey and editorial pieces as an Editor at Vox Populi, IIT Kanpur’s Journalism body between 2020-22
Journalism
• Improved Vox Facebook page reach by 60% throughout tenure and delivered group’s highest trending post engaging 100K+ people