I'm Vandit Kunapareddi, a finance and operations leader who builds the systems companies actually run on

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Strategic finance, business operations, and AI-native internal systems. Most recently a startup's first finance hire, building the function from scratch.

Selected outcomes:

15%

Gross margin improvement through pricing and cost work

25%

COGS reduction via supplier renegotiation

$150K

Annual carrying cost savings from rebuilt demand planning

25 hrs/wk

Manual work removed through AI-native internal tooling

Things I've built:

Purchase ordersVendorsInventoryReorder alerts

On hand

4,180

Open POs

Reorder soon

Low

KonnukoOperations softwareBuilt solo

Payments an agent can't talk its way past

Budget caps and vendor whitelists enforced outside the agent's own code — one payment clears, the next is stopped.

AgentVaultOpen sourceTypeScript

Rolling cash position

Runway

14 mo

Gross margin

52%

Internal toolsDashboards

Live NYC subway arrivals

A no-key API over the MTA realtime feeds.

NextStopPython

Everything a company needs to be taken seriously by its own numbers

Strategic Finance & Planning

Three-statement and scenario models, forecasting and reforecasts, budgets and long range plans, and the unit economics underneath them.

AI-Native Systems & Internal Tools

Building AI into how the work actually gets done: analysis, reporting, and workflow automation, plus internal tools that replace manual processes and fragmented spreadsheets.

Business Operations

Operating cadences, reporting and dashboards, procurement and vendor systems, and cross functional projects owned from scoping through execution. Deep experience in consumer and physical product businesses.

Investment & Diligence

Appraising the decision in front of you: project viability, IRR and payback, build-versus-buy, and investment analysis that ends in a clear go or no-go.

Where I've worked:

DEEPSAshoka UniversityAmazonAbacus AssociatesRobin Hood Foundation

Selected work

DEEPS, Inc.Finance and Operations — built the function from scratch across cash, inventory, procurement, and fulfillmentNew York

Ashoka UniversityAssistant Manager, FP&A — scenario budgeting and project viability across 10+ departmentsNew Delhi

AmazonTransaction Risk Analyst — risk-scoring models and training data for fraud-detection systemsHyderabad

Abacus AssociatesWealth Management Associate — reporting and portfolio research across $10M+ in AUMHyderabad

Robin Hood FoundationSummer Associate — grant analytics and a decision-support dashboard for grantmakingNew York

Alkaline Copper BottleFounder — a D2C consumer brand run end to end as a solo operatorOwn venture

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