// the story

A mechanical engineer who took a hard left into markets.

I'm Aneesh — born in Mumbai, sharpened at IIT Madras, now a quant strategist at Morgan Stanley. I like problems that need both halves of a brain: the rigour to model them and the imagination to make them human. Spreadsheets by day; songs, sketches and long runs by night.

// by the numbers

8.95CGPA · IIT Madras (top 15 of 200)
0GMAT Focus Edition
99.08JEE Advanced percentile (AIR 1,481)
#0National Science Olympiad — international
10.0perfect Class-X CGPA
0languages spoken

// the journey

2017

Perfect tens, and a globe

Class X with a 10.0 CGPA, and International Rank 64 at the National Science Olympiad.

2019

The exam, then the institute

JEE Advanced AIR 1,481 (99.08 %ile of ~173k) and 99.56 %ile in JEE Mains → IIT Madras.

2019 — 2023

IIT Madras · B.Tech Mechanical

CGPA 8.95, top 15 of 200. Game theory, operations research, deep learning — where "likes patterns" became "builds them." Led the Analytics Club's RL project at the Centre for Innovation.

2022 — 2025

Finmechanics · the pivot lands

Interned, secured a PPO, and shipped two national market-infrastructure platforms for CCIL — promoted to Consultant in 18 months.

2025 →

Morgan Stanley · and what's next

Senior Associate on the QIS desk, building custom indices. GMAT 725 in the bag — eyeing an MBA and a future across consulting, PE and VC.

// five languages, two scripts of study

I think in several.

fluent

EnglishHindiTamilKannadaTulu

studied

French 5 yearsGerman 1 year · IIT-M

// beyond the desk

Giving some of it back.

MENTOR

100+ students mentored

Alumni mentor at my old school — career seminars and Q&A for Grade 11–12 on IIT admissions, the engineering→quant pivot, and algo-trading paths.

SPEAK

Toastmasters · Tech Talkers

Core member of Morgan Stanley's chapter — Grammarian & Ah-Counter roles, coaching 10+ juniors on speech structure and clarity.

IMPACT

300 school benches

With 100+ MS volunteers, pulled ~200 kg of plastic off Mumbai's coast — feeding a line that turned 6,000 kg of ocean-bound waste into 300 durable school benches.

Curious what I actually build? → see the work · or just say hi