Akshay Menon
Product | Growth | Data | Fintech
About
I work at the intersection of product, growth, and data at mission driven tech companies.
I believe modern, accessible, low-cost financial infrastructure is fundamental to advancing society as it underpins all human productivity, and have worked in this space for the past ten years.
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Journey
2025–presentSling Money — Leading growth product. Sling's mission is to bring everyone in the world on to an instant, low cost, fairer financial system using stablecoin technology.
2018–2025
Wise — Built products for businesses to get paid internationally. Started as a data analyst in the debit cards team, and moved to PM later.
2016–2018Dimagi — Mobile data tools for frontline health workers in low resource settings.
2015–2016PwC — Consultant, data science projects for financial services clients.
2011–2015BITS Pilani — Mechanical Engineering. Thesis on detecting malaria parasites from blood smear images using image processing.
Side Quests
A few projects I spend time on outside of my day job:
Melon Farms — recipe generator app built with Lovable, Claude, and Midjourney
Perfect Days — fiction and travel writing on Substack
Wabi Sabi Comics — a comic strip I used to draw ages ago
Life
Running is my main sport these days. I enjoy climbing and the occasional surf.
I try to read a couple of books a month, mostly literary fiction, and have a goal to write a novel in the near future.
Home is somewhere between London/Tallinn/Kerala.