TIFIN hires a BITS Pilani Alumnus to Boost its Engineering Strength

TIFIN, a fintech startup backed by JP Morgan, Franklin Templeton, and Hamilton Lane, is banking on Indian talent to drive fintech innovation. The $842 million-valued'soonicorn' has just hired Arun Gautam as its VP of engineering to lead the company's Magnifi team, one of TIFIN's two major divisions.

The other division of the company is a B2B arm that works with wealth advisors and businesses that provide financial services to consumers. TIFIN operates a suite of products across both divisions, some of which are in-house and others that came to the platform through acquisitions.

Gautam's hiring follows TIFIN's acquisition of 1st Main, a digital product agency. He will collaborate with Kinnari Thakker and Kiran Nambiar, the co-founders of 1st Main, who have joined Magnifi as chief design officer and chief technology officer, respectively.

“TIFIN’s vision is in line with my own – to challenge the bounds of the traditional and approach with a curiosity of how transformational good design and thoughtful tech can be,” said Arun Gautam, VP of engineering at Magnifi by TIFIN.

Gautam attended INSEAD and BITS Pilani. He worked for Aviva before launching his own fintech company, BaanMoney.com. He was most recently the chief technology officer at Goodera, a startup that connects employees with thousands of nonprofits in over 100 countries.