Arun is a Co-Founder of MoHash – a DeFi protocol to solve for India’s $380B SME Credit Gap. As a Head of Product at Blackbuck, he’s delivered flow-based loans to 1000s of truck owners in rural India at low default rates. As a Head of Product at Mobikwik, he’s helped 1M+ small merchants to accept digital payments upto $2B+.
At India Stack he contributed to the design of OCEN and did background work on RBI’s MSME committee report. In the past, he’s led Engineering teams at Samsung and has a degree in Engineering from NIT Karnataka, Surathkal. He’s a disciple of Noam Chomsky, Marc Andreessen and Nandan Nilekani.