About Soups Ranjan

With over 18 years of experience in software engineering, data science, and risk management, Soups Ranjan is the co-founder and CEO of Sardine, a behavior-infused platform that offers fraud prevention, compliance (KYC/AML), and payments solutions for various industries, such as banking, online marketplaces, fintech, crypto, online gaming, and gift cards. They are hiring actively and looking for talented and passionate people who share their vision of taking the risk out of high-risk payments. Previously, Soups Ranjan led the risk and data science teams at Coinbase, where they scaled the platform by over 1000x and enabled millions of users to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies securely and efficiently. Soups Ranjan also worked at Revolut, where he launched their first regulatory compliant crypto product in the US and built their fraud and compliance stack from scratch. Soups Ranjan has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and holds multiple patents in network security and anomaly detection. Soups Ranjan also co-founded Risk Salon, a think tank that brings together risk professionals from tech companies in the SF bay area and Seattle. Soups Ranjan writes about fintech, fraud prevention, and thoughtful company building on his blog and newsletter. Soups Ranjan's a data scientist and has spent decades combating fraud using machine learning. The first time he witnessed over a million dollars lost to identity fraud, Soups Ranjan  knew he needed to start Sardine. All fraud problems are data problems, and those losses could’ve been avoided with the right data. But finding the right data is hard when you’re dealing with dozens of siloed data providers. You don’t have time to sift through so many different dashboards when fraudsters are attacking your system. You need all of your tools and data working together in one place. So they built Sardine, to capture the most relevant signals, highest performing data providers, and apply cutting edge machine learning to make it easy to understand the risk behind every login, sign up, or transaction. Built by the fraud squad for the fraud squad, this is the platform Soups Ranjan wished he had when he was at Coinbase and Revolut.