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Varun Khanna

Founder of Stealth Startup

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

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Stealth Startup

  • Founder

    2024 - Current

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cmorq

  • Compliance Officer and Web3 product

    2021 - 2023

  • Director Of Operations

    2020 - 2021

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Etsy

  • Financial Operations

    2019 - 2020

    - Modeled and implemented Black Friday and Cyber Monday cloud strategy on GCP for 200+ engineering projects - Restructured and automated the process for GDPR compliant archiving of digital asset, owned by former employees - Created tools and processes for faster metrics reporting, saving 40 hours of staff time quarterly - Developed metrics dashboards and alerting mechanisms using Looker, BigQuery, and StackDriver

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Round Finance

  • Product Operations

    2019 - 2020

    - Developed a technical understanding of the product architecture, and worked with engineers and stakeholders to make significant improvements to the user experience - Identified, specified, and prioritized product features and capabilities while maintaining a measurable roadmap spanning both smaller features and more ambitious left-field bets - Delivered process maps that visualized the user journey and communicated the product requirements to engineers

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Shortlist

  • Financial Operations

    2018 - 2019

    Core Responsibilities: - Responsible for building and managing processes for paying freelancers on our platform - Initiated a switch to transaction subscriptions that increased the product’s MRR - Automated payment flows using Zapier and effectively reduced resolution time by 30% - Delivered a tax report management product for 8,000+ freelancers using QuickBooks & Tax1099 - Built tools that executed pay-runs by integrating with third-party APIs - Provided audit support for clients' quarterly and year-end closing activities Company-wide Initiatives: - Partnered with other teams in the organization to ideate, iterate, and deliver product improvements - Tailored the invoicing systems to align with internal controls - Prepared marketing materials to pitch our payments module to prospective customers - Worked on the organization’s metrics, reporting, and trend intelligence processes to highlight key process improvements using Looker

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EY

  • Audit and Valuation Services

    2015 - 2016

    - Constructed intellectual property valuation models for healthcare, financial technology, and social media companies - Executed diverse risk-based audit engagements & projects including drafting scope memos, preparing flowcharts, testing data, and monitoring management action plans

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