Soups Ranjan
Co-founder, CEO @ Sardine | Payments, Fraud, Compliance
- Role
- Co-founder, CEO at Sardine
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Soups Ranjan
With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, data science, and risk management, I am the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, a behavior-infused platform that offers fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/AML), and payments solutions for various industries, such as banking, online marketplaces, fintech, crypto, online gaming, and gift cards. We are hiring actively and looking for talented and passionate people who share our vision of taking the risk out of high-risk payments.Previously, I led the risk and data science teams at Coinbase, where we scaled the platform by over and enabled millions of users to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies securely and efficiently. I also worked at Revolut, where I launched their first regulatory compliant crypto product in the US and built their fraud and compliance stack from scratch. I have a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and hold multiple patents in network security and anomaly detection. I also co-founded Risk Salon, a think tank that brings together risk professionals from tech companies in the SF bay area and Seattle. I write about fintech, fraud prevention, and thoughtful company building on my blog and newsletter.
Experience
Co-founder, CEO
Feb 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
AI decision platform for Fraud, Compliance (KYC/AML) & Credit. Our unique value proposition is that we utilize customer and transactional behavior to catch fraud, scams and money laundering risks.KYC/KYB:* SSN verification* Doc KYC with liveness* Sanctions screening & adverse media* KYBFraud:* Identity fraud at account opening* Account funding fraud* E-commerce checkout fraud* Card issuing fraud (card stolen and unauthorized usage)Payments:* Bank transfer (ACH, Sepa) and card funding to crypto wallets while taking care of your entire fraud and compliance
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
BTech
1996 — 2000
Rice University
PhD
2002 — 2005
Rice University
MS
2000 — 2002
Skills
- C++
- Ajax
- Android
- C
- R
- Java
- Network Security
- Real-Time Bidding
- Machine Learning
- Mysql
- Distributed Systems
- Ad Optimization
- Python
- Recommender Systems
- Mapreduce
- Click Fraud Detection
- Big Data
- Data Mining
- Ad Tech
- Network Programming
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