Saurav Mahapatra | Profound

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Saurav's stories span fraud controls, risk-engine redesign, market launches, and consumer discovery.

Saurav Mahapatra

Edges

Shaping Fraud Control Systems

Saurav shapes fraud products around the operating choices that make a model useful: what it scores, where controls apply, and how legitimate customers retain access. At Tide, he led the product design for APP fraud controls and rebuilt a legacy risk engine around fresher patterns and broader signals. His work connects model outputs to due diligence, progressive access, review flows, and measurable detection quality.

Spotted in 2 Stories

Market-Specific Risk Design

Saurav adapts risk products to the signals, regulations, and product constraints of each market. At Tide, he used local business-registration signals in Germany, category controls in France, and an India-specific heuristic model rather than reusing UK logic. The result is a risk approach that matches the available evidence and the customer experience of each product.

Spotted in 2 Stories

Sequencing Product Investments

Saurav sequences product investment by testing the underlying problem before committing teams to large builds. At Flipkart, he reframed separate homepages into targeted discovery modules. At Tide, he prioritized an India-specific risk model over reusing a poorly fitting UK model. He uses user behavior, model performance, strategic importance, and engineering scope to make the trade-off explicit.

Spotted in 2 Stories

Saurav Mahapatra

Career Stories

Tide APP Fraud Model: Building Risk Controls at Onboarding

At Tide as Senior Product Manager

2023 - 2026

Rebuilding Tide's Legacy Risk Engine

At Tide as Senior Product Manager

2023 - 2026

Launching India's Interim Onboarding Risk Model

At Tide as Senior Product Manager

2023 - 2026

Flipkart Homepage: Reframing Cohort Personalization

At Flipkart as Product Manager

2019 - 2021

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