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EX–BIG 4 STRATEGY CONSULTANT TURNED AI BUILDER

Vimallnath Kathirasan

AI Product Builder · Strategy & Operations Consultant · AI-Driven Development Trainer · Fintech Venture Builder

I advise companies how to make more money with AI, and build the systems directly for them.

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Vimallnath Kathirasan - Founder of Akal AI Solutions, AI Builder and Strategy Consultant

Custom software

Internal systems, ERP-connected tools and customer apps

AI training

HRDC-claimable workshop for your team

ABOUT

From strategy to building

I started in capital markets and strategy consulting at PwC and EY. Today, I build the software myself.

Most software fails because consultants do not code, and developers do not understand the business. I bridge that gap. I map the workflow, fix the process, and build the software directly around your team.

ENGINEERING & DELIVERY

AI Product Builder

Production web applications, mobile platforms, and AI systems built directly for clients and own ventures.

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5+

Systems shipped

for clients & own ventures

EXPERIENCE

Career journey

EDUCATION & ACADEMIC HONOURS

2014 - 2015

Perlis Matriculation College, Malaysia

Pre-University in Accounting

CGPA: 4.00 · Excellence Award (All Semesters)

2015 - 2018

Monash University, Malaysia & Melbourne (exchange)

Bachelor's degree (double major): Accounting and Banking & Finance

Securities Commission Scholar · CGPA 3.7

Oct 2018 - Jan 2022

Graduate Management Executive

Securities Commission Malaysia

Served 3-year scholarship bond across Corporate Planning & Strategy, Market & Corporate Surveillance, and more.

Key achievements
  • Performed market research for ideation and curation of the Capital Market Masterplan 3 (CMP3)
  • Composed daily market reports for the SC Chairman and Minister of Finance
  • Built financial models: equity market crisis thermometer and probability of default assessment for PLCs
  • Identified Asset Impairment misrepresentations traced to fraudulent activities by management
Capital MarketsFinancial AnalysisPolicySurveillance

Jan 2021 - Present · in parallel

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Vespid MY Solutions

Fintech/Edutech startup backed by Cradle & MOSTI, building the "Duolingo for Finance" in Malaysia.

Key achievements
  • Directed product pivot from trading platform to gamified financial literacy super-app
  • Defined "Learn-to-Earn" reward economy using behavioural data analytics, achieving high day-30 retention
  • Optimised user onboarding flow, improving install-to-active conversion rates by 25%
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Jul 2022 - Dec 2023

Senior Consultant, Transformation Architecture

Ernst & Young (EY)

Strategy consulting across growth strategy, strategic planning, enterprise cost reduction, and operating model design.

Key achievements
  • Developed transformation strategy for an energy regulator to drive the Energy Transition agenda
  • Assessed business feasibility of nation's first Renewable Energy Exchange for net zero carbon goals
  • Conducted infrastructure impact study of Thailand's largest logistics development on Malaysia's GDP
  • Identified areas for 20% cost savings across subsidiaries of a major listed company
TransformationCost OptimisationEnergyGovernment

Jan 2024 - Apr 2025

Senior Consultant, Strategy & Operations

PwC SEA Consulting / Strategy&

Strategy consulting spanning commercial, operations, and go-to-market with a full-scale transformation lens.

Key achievements
  • Validated business plan for a billion-dollar data centre JV of two major telco companies in MY and SG
  • Developed target operating model for a leading water utility via employee profile analysis and global benchmarking
  • Supported Post-Merger Integration for a Fortune 100 O&G company ensuring non-event on Day 1
  • Devised 3 growth strategies for Malaysian O&G company across traditional and renewable energy
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May 2025 - Present

Founder & AI Product Engineer

Akal AI Solutions

Founded Akal AI Solutions, an AI product studio operating across three pillars: building custom AI products for SME clients, teaching HRDC-claimable AI-Driven Development workshops, and launching AI-native ventures.

Key achievements
  • Shipped Aurum: multi-brand gold-savings app for a Malaysian goldsmith group, live on the App Store and Google Play with a per-brand admin panel
  • Delivered Internal OS: an operations and quoting system for event equipment suppliers, with booking-overlap checks and a costing engine
  • Built RestockingOS: automated procurement engine with ERP integration for a Malaysian jewellery retailer
  • Shipped TradeMind, Tiger AI, and monimoni as AI-native fintech ventures
  • Conducted HRDC-claimable AI-Driven Development workshops, training 10+ non-technical professionals to build with AI
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BUILDING MY OWN

Products of my own: exploring finance, behaviour, and decision-making

Alongside client systems, I use independent projects to explore how software intersects with human psychology and financial behaviour: how people manage risk, react under pressure, and build better habits.

TradeMind screens: the session dashboard charting P&L against heart rate with crash-out events, the always-on-top HUD flagging panic with a stop-trading warning, and the Panic state card

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TradeMind

Real-time biometric trading psychology companion

  • Real-time facial blendshape tracking and mouse telemetry to identify emotional tilt
  • Always-on-top HUD overlay designed specifically for active trading desktop setups
  • Composite 'crash-out' indicator helping traders step back before making impulsive decisions
What we built

A desktop trading companion exploring biometric signals and trading psychology. Uses computer vision and input telemetry to detect emotional fatigue, stress, and tilt during live trading sessions.

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Tiger AI phone screens: a Maybank stock chart, an investment thesis with confidence ratings, and a paper-trading portfolio with sector allocation

02 / 03

Tiger AI

AI investment research and paper trading

  • Chained AI workflows that generate structured fundamental and technical investment theses
  • Real-time behavioural coaching that flags 16+ impulsive and emotional trading patterns
  • Multi-currency paper trading across US equities, crypto, and Malaysian stocks
What we built

An investment research platform with paper trading capabilities. Chains structured analytical workflows to synthesise market data, generate investment theses, and identify common behavioural biases like FOMO and revenge trading.

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monimoni phone screens: the Moni pet on the home screen above log-expense buttons and left-to-spend, the monthly budget ring, and spending insights by category

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monimoni

Gamified personal budgeting PWA

  • Behaviour-driven virtual pet whose energy and wellbeing mirror your budget discipline
  • Cloud-synced budgets, with cached data you can still view offline
  • Emotion-tagged transactions and spending pattern insights with encouraging behavioural nudges
What we built

A Tamagotchi-inspired budgeting app where the health and mood of a virtual pet reflects your financial habits. Combines zero-based budgeting, quick expense logging, and behavioural nudges to help users stick to their financial goals.

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