Varun Khanna
Founder of Stealth Startup
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2024 - Current
Compliance Officer and Web3 product
2021 - 2023
Director Of Operations
2020 - 2021
cmorq organizes blockchain data into standard products that empower institutions and individuals.
Raised $3,750,000.00.
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
Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items.
Raised $97,256,127.00 from Elliott Investment Management, Dragoneer Investment Group and TPG.
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
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
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
Ernst & Young is a provider of assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.