Gokul Varma

Co-founder & CTO at Anchor HQ · compliance, growth

Anchor HQ

Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

Srishti Manipal Institute

English, Hindi

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I started Anchor HQ to fix consumer finance for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $11 million across 3 rounds.

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closes in 3 months

Seed round open - construction estimating for mid-market retailers, 25% month-on-month growth

Stage: Seed
Raising: $3M
Instrument: Convertible note
Committed so far: $530k from angels
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: 25% month-on-month growth after 24 months
Use of funds: 18 months of runway to Series A milestones

25% month-on-month growth after 24 months. Looking for investors who know logistics and can help with expansion into the UK.

Noida, India · remote OKgrowthcompliancelending

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Experience

Co-founder & CTO
Nov 2023 - Present
Anchor HQ · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Grew the team to 96 people across 4 countries.
- Raised $8 million across 3 rounds.
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2021 - Nov 2023
PwC · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Grew the growth team from 3 to 38 engineers.
- Built the experimentation framework 14 product teams use to ship changes safely.
Staff iOS Engineer
Jun 2018 - Jan 2021
Siemens · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Led the migration of 14 services to lending.
- Moved 77% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Staff Software Engineer
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Infosys · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 451ms to 128ms.
- Moved 83% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Staff Backend Engineer
Jul 2014 - Mar 2017
Zerodha · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 3.
- Cut p99 latency on the web services from 570ms to 178ms.

Projects

Open-source lending toolkit

2026

A small library for consumer finance that 678 developers star on GitHub.

Write-up: consumer finance in practice

2022

A long-form guide to consumer finance for people starting out.

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Education

Srishti Manipal Institute
B.Des, Engineering
2003 - 2007

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