Soups Ranjan — Founder, CEO @ Sardine | Agentic AI to fight fincrime
Founder, CEO @ Sardine | Agentic AI to fight fincrime
Soups Ranjan ranks #424 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Financial Services, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 43.5K followers and published 15 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.3% average engagement rate.
- 43.5K followers
- 15 posts / 30d
- 0.3% avg engagement
- 1.2K follower growth / 30d
The roast
Soups Ranjan spent twenty years mastering risk management only to name his company after a bottom-feeding fish. It’s a perfect metaphor for a career built on Coinbase scraps and crypto panic, where the only thing being successfully laundered is his own ego.
About Soups
With over 20 years of experience in software engineering, data science, and risk management, I am 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. We are hiring actively and looking for talented and passionate people who share our vision of taking the risk out of high-risk payments. Previously, I led the risk and data science teams at Coinbase, where we scaled the platform by over 1000x and enabled millions of users to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies securely and efficiently. I also worked at Revolut, where I launched their first regulatory compliant crypto product in the US and built their fraud and compliance stack from scratch. I have a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University and hold multiple patents in network security and anomaly detection. I also co-founded Risk Salon, a think tank that brings together risk professionals from tech companies in the SF bay area and Seattle. I write about fintech, fraud prevention, and thoughtful company building on my blog and newsletter.
Highlights
- Big Audience — 43,529 followers · top 5%
- Top 10% in Financial Services — Ranked #36 of 547 creators
- Top 10% in United States — Ranked #466 of 5940 creators
- Consistent Creator — 8 posts in 30d · top 25%
Recent posts
Late last night I got the news that our first SardineCon Japan was a massive success. - Great discussions around AI-native fraud, AML, & risk infrastructure in Japan - Attendees from leading financial & infrastructure players in the country We love running these events, but the first one in a new country is always the hardest! Huge shoutout to Satoshi, Kazuki, and our entire Sardine Japan team for pulling this off and delivering a great experience. They aimed for 20+ guests and ended up with close to 40. And many thanks to our investor Geodesic Capital for helping us organize the event. We
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Over the last couple months, I’ve seen the rise of polymorphic fraud attacks. Basically, the attack hits one vulnerability but, because it’s run by an AI not a human, it adapts in real time whenever you try to fight it. Not ideal - especially with how fraud teams currently operate! It’s simply impossible for a human to react as fast as one of these AIs. That's given rise to a new approach to fraud ops the Sardine team and I are thinking a lot about, both in terms of what agents you need and how to structure your fraud operations. I got a sneak peak at what the team has put together for th
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Thrilled to see Sardine named to the AIFintech 100 list for innovation by Fintech Global! I think a lot of my job as CEO is to be our ‘chief AI officer.’ I need to encourage and push our team forward in our AI products, specifically our fincrime Agents which have absolutely wild capabilities and potential, but also on our internal use of AI. I’m very proud of how the team has been so proactive when it comes to the biggest tech advancement of our lives. Just in the last year, we’ve shipped dozens of agents and shifted our entire platform to be agentic first. Culture and trust matter more tha
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