Saanvi Mehra

I'm a student in the M&T program at Penn, where I study finance @ Wharton and CS Eng @ Penn Engineering. Set Theory was one of the first mathematical concepts I was exposed to. I realised pretty early on that I love intersection sets. As a result, I've always sought problems that simulates multiple dimensions of who I am, sitting across agentic payments, stablecoin research, credit scoring, insurance infrastructure in India, and sensitivity optimization in multimodal ML and computer vision systems.

I'm currently working at Natural as an Engineer. In the past, I built Orbete, a credit layer based on stablecoin transaction behavior, and worked at Stripe to better understand how payments reach meaningful scale. I've also spent time with Blockchain Capital, Bullish, Zopper, Penn Blockchain, the Wharton Innovation Fund, and Wharton's Stevens Center Fintech Fellowship.

I grew up in Noida, a suburb of Delhi, India, with a strong sense of धर्मDharmaIn Hinduism, dharma signifies behaviours considered to be in accord with the order that makes life and the universe possible — duty, law, ethics, and right action. and कर्मKarmaIn Indian religions, karma is the concept of action, work, or deed and its effect on the future of an individual — the spiritual principle of cause and effect. shaped by my parents, the two most principled and hardworking people I know. I have a sister 6 years younger than me, who has taught me more about humanity than everything, everyone else, combined. My favourite colour is green. I use British English because I studied in the particularly colonially influenced ICSE board. It has caused more bugs than I'd liked to admit because of my insistence on seeing the letters our together.

I'm drawn to spirituality, Hinduism, and consciousness (which is oddly in line with both the 70s California tech bro I aspire to be and the Advaita VedanticAdvaita VedantaA Hindu non-dual philosophy meaning "not two". It teaches that the individual soul (Atman) and the ultimate absolute reality (Brahman) are identical. monkdom that I hope finds me one day). I've tried reading and translating Vedic scriptures on my own, in addition to the nihilistic, stoic western philosophy college kids are expected to resort to in times of desperation. All of it and none of it makes sense. I try to be intentional, but am very aware of the futility of it, so I just take joy in the beauty of it all: @saanvivsmehra