Clara Gomes

Overview

Building Crest Analytics in Chennai - consumer finance. Grew the team to 120 people across 3 countries. Signed 393 paying customers, 9 of them enterprises. Most at home with lending and consumer fintech. Board member at a local non-profit.

Replies on weekends

Experience

1. Co-founder & COO

   Apr 2025 - Present
   Crest Analytics · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Signed 400 paying customers, 3 of them enterprises.
   • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
   • Grew the team to 100 people across 2 countries.
2. Business Analyst

   Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
   Ola · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Moved 84% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 445ms to 102ms.
3. Associate Partner

   Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
   Persistent Systems · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 2.
4. Business Analyst

   Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
   Adobe · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Shipped 16 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
5. Engagement Manager

   Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
   Zerodha · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
   • Ran commercial diligence on 17 deals.

Projects

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Education

1. IIT Delhi

   B.Tech, Business Administration
   2005 - 2009