Vaishnavi Pawar

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Managing Director at Glade Foods | ex-TCS

Glade Foods
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
Christ University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Open to workHiring
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Overview

Currently at Glade Foods, where I lead financial services strategy with a team of 35. Led a cost programme that saved a client $15 million. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in mobile apps
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on regulation
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Courses and coaching offers

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
banking strategydue diligencepaymentsregulation
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Managing Director in supply chain, Mumbai or hybrid

Target roles
Managing Director
Level
Mid
Industries
Healthtech, Climate tech
Work mode
On-site
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series B) where mobile apps is core to the product.
Not interested in
Crypto

20 years in financial services strategy. Strongest at regulation and banking strategy. Can start in about six weeks.

Mumbai, Indiapaymentsregulationdue diligence
Open
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

5 consultant roles open on the financial services team in Mumbai

Role
Consultant
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹42-90 LPA
Team
Android, 15 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Has closed the books at a growing company Strong modelling Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp ₹37-84 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Mumbai, Indiadue diligencebanking strategypayments
Open

Experience

  1. Managing Director
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Glade Foods · 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Moved 83% of Android traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 2.
  2. Associate Partner
    May 2023 - Feb 2026
    TCS · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led the migration of 71 services to due diligence.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Mar 2022 - May 2023
    Infosys · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $175 million.
  4. Business Analyst
    Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
    Visa · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 35%.
  5. Consultant
    Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
    EY · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $58 million.

Projects

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2026

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Education

  1. Christ University
    BBA, Economics
    2002 - 2006

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