Portfolio · 2026 Raabya Vasandani

Raabya Vasandani

a little about how i work

PRODUCT, MADE
FROM PAYING ATTENTION

I'm a rising senior at NYU studying Computer Science and Economics, which is a fancy way of saying I like numbers with a story attached. I've spent the last few summers moving between fintech, fashion, and data, mostly because I couldn't pick just one.

Right now that means building spend controls for finance teams at Lign Digital in Jakarta. Before that it meant sitting inside Karl Lagerfeld's sell-in decisions, and before that, a spreadsheet with a million rows of churn data. I like the version of product work where you sit with the mess before you try to fix it.

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The person behind
the product

My family's roots are in Indonesia, which is part of why Lign's mission, building better financial tools across Southeast Asia, feels personal rather than just like a job. I grew up paying attention to how differently people handle money depending on where they are, and that's stuck with me.

Outside of work I'm the friend with an opinion on every restaurant (ask me about Beli), I play a lot of tennis, and I once spent a summer studying how LVMH builds a brand because I couldn't help myself. I like things that are well made, whether that's a product, a plate of food, or a spreadsheet.

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where i spend my time

Fintech Fashion Data

Three things keep showing up in my work: how people move money, how people decide what to wear, and what the numbers say when nobody's looking. Lign, G-III, and Accenture each gave me a version of one, and I've been chasing the overlap ever since.

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the roles so far

Experience

Lign Digital

Jun 2026 — Present · Jakarta, Indonesia
Product Manager Intern

I own merchant-lock card controls end to end, the feature that lets a finance team restrict a card to a single merchant so spend doesn't wander off policy. That meant scoping the engineering tickets myself and sitting in on design reviews across mobile, backend, and ops until it actually shipped. I've also helped move Lign into real conversations with stablecoin rail providers for cross-border payments, and I built a small AI flow that keeps our permissions matrix in sync whenever an engineer closes a Linear ticket, which used to eat a couple hours of someone's week.

G-III Apparel

Jun – Aug 2025 · New York, NY
Product & Merchandising Intern

I sat close to the sell-in decisions for Karl Lagerfeld Paris, building the sales data summaries that helped the team land an 82% sell-through. Most of my days went into turning competitive and trend analysis on women's ready-to-wear into calls on design, sales, and production, and into checking whether the AI fashion tools everyone was talking about actually held up against how the team already worked.

Accenture

Jun – Aug 2024 · Hybrid
Data & AI Intern

I spent a summer elbow deep in over a million rows of consumer data, cleaning it into something a churn model could actually use, which lifted accuracy by about 20%. I segmented 100,000 customers with RFM, Apriori, survival, and KNN modeling, then helped turn those predictions into retention outreach that other teams could act on.

things i've built on the side

Projects

Self-directed, ongoing

Repp

I already rank every restaurant I try and every book I read, so I'm building the version of that habit for workout studios.

Self-directed, live

Recharge Revive

Designed single-source architecture generating personalized bilingual meal plans, macros, and grocery lists for 3 users.

Product teardown

Beli

A full teardown of the app I open most. My thesis: taste needs an identity attached. I mapped the rank, list, and share loop to Beli's network effect, found a trust gap in how Farzi NYC gets ranked, and proposed the features to close it.

App remodel

Base, by Coinbase

A remodel exploring how Base could drive more activation and retention. We ran 20-plus user interviews, mapped out segments and experience maps, and turned the research into mockups and a prioritization framework.

outside the internships

Leadership

NYU Blockchain and Fintech Club

Sep 2023 — Dec 2025
VP of Teams, prev. Head of Product/Mentorship

I coordinated roadmaps and weekly priorities across our product, mentorship, investment, and dev teams, staying close enough to each to catch blockers before they slowed things down. I also built the interview rubric and scoring system we used to evaluate candidates across all four teams, and sat in on evaluations myself.

Before that, as Head of Product, I led our product team through weekly syncs with Coinbase reps, walking them through user segmentation and interviews all the way to a full PRD. I also ran our mentorship program end to end — weekly workshops breaking down blockchain and fintech basics, 1:1 mentor matching based on interest, resume and interview prep, and a final capstone project for every mentee.

Education

New York University, College of Arts and Science

B.A. in Computer Science & Economics · Expected May 2027

Relevant coursework: Predictive Analytics, Data Management & Analysis (Grader), Data Structures, Probability & Statistics, Operating Systems, Basic Algorithms, Intermediate Micro/Macroeconomics, Money & Banking.

Off the Clock

Trader Joe's runs, reading, tennis, baking, hosting people, ranking restaurants on Beli, mixology, strength training.

Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn) Java SQL R JavaScript / HTML / CSS Tableau Figma