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Shriraghav Ashok
I'm a student at Berkeley Haas studying Business Administration. At a time when the world around us is changing at an unprecedented rate, I hope to be a lifelong learner, going from a know-it-all to a learn-it-all. I'm currently a Product Development Engineer at Ctrl Tower, a Berkeley SkyDeck-backed startup. Previously, I worked across product, finance, and machine learning at Kira, Morgan Stanley, and Boston Commons. I hope to use this experience to continue building at the frontier, reshaping markets and technology.
Berkeley, CA
01Education
University of California, Berkeley
B.S. Business Administration
BASIS Peoria
High School High Honors Diploma
02Experience
Ctrl TowerProduct Development EngineerOct 2026 – Present
- Incoming Fall 2026
KiraMachine Learning InternMay 2026 – Sep 2026
- Built agentic AI systems to automate Know Your Transaction (KYT) approvals and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring across Kira's $280M transaction network.
- Deployed Latin American expansion, deploying automated compliance across Colombia, Mexico, and Lima.
Morgan StanleyFinance Academy ScholarOct 2025 – Mar 2026
- Mentored by Morgan Stanley professionals over 5 months as part of a cohort of 120 scholars, exploring finance principles, market dynamics, and investment frameworks.
- Conducted market analysis to structure and size a corporate bond offering for Southwest Airlines as lead left bookrunner.
NexHacksCo-OrganizerOct 2025 – Jan 2026
- Co-organized the largest youth-led hackathon in the US at Carnegie Mellon, with over 1,500 participants nationwide.
- Raised over $1,500,000 in sponsorships from over 30 companies including a16z, Cursor, Lovable, Polymarket, and JPMorgan.
Boston CommonsFinancial Analyst InternJun – Oct 2025
- Conducted market analysis, comparable company analysis, and DCF modeling to develop an investment report for initiation of Avenues Supermarket to a $3B portfolio.
- Presented findings to the company CEO, and was featured on the Young Investors Society newsletter, reaching over 25,000 monthly readers.
03Distinctions
Finance
2nd @ Morgan Stanley Case Competition
3rd / 1,000 @ YIS Bloomberg Global Stock Pitch Competition
Morgan Stanley Jumpstart Scholar
Bloomberg Market Concepts Pilot Program Invitee (cohort of 5)
Free Ventures Venture Fellow
Tech
1st @ NARC Research Conference
Best Paper Runner-Up @ IEEE ICDM UGHS
Nexus AI Fellow — 1 / 50 selected nationally
Accepted @ YC Startup School 2026
Accepted @ YC Internship Expo 2027
Debate
Ranked 3rd / 18,000 in Varsity Public Forum internationally
NSDA All American Team
2nd @ Stanford Invitational
8 Tournament of Champions Qualifying Bids
3rd @ Jack Howe CSU Long Beach · 1st Speaker
5th @ UC Berkeley Cal Invitational
04Projects
Horizon
Action-conditional system for certifying intraday settlement risk in Fedwire-style payment systems.
Aegis
AML compliance engine surfacing money-laundering patterns across SumSub transactions. Adopted by Kira.
Vigil
Order-matching engine for binary prediction markets — microsecond matching with price-time priority.
05Publications
Certified Continuation and the Contraction Spectrum: Output-Certified Head–Block Routing for Long-Context Decoding.
REFLEX: Reflexive Equilibrium Fixed-point Learning for Endogenous eXchanges.
Horizon: An Action-Conditional System for Certifying Intraday Settlement Risk.
FS-PREM: Physics-Aware Prediction of Hurricane-Induced Port Disruptions Along the US Gulf Coast.
Nexus: A Probabilistic Early Warning System for Financial Liquidity Crises in Intermediate US Banks.