sarasCTO & Co-Founder · Sept 2024 – Present
Saras was built to bring transparency to the noisy world of stock market recommendations — helping retail traders evaluate advisor credibility before acting on recommendations.
150K+
Downloads
200K+
Messages received / day
400
Daily Live trades
98%
Uptime
100K
Registered users
Core Engineering
Flagship realtime systems that power ingestion, execution, and multidimensional market intelligence.
Ecosystem
Product, growth, operations, and infrastructure surfaces that made the core computation systems usable in production.
Product
The mobile and web experiences that make advisor intelligence tangible for retail traders.
Home
App home — discovery entry and live market pulse
Trade
Realtime recommendation stream with advisor context
Filters & Search
Multidimensional discovery across live universe
Trade Details
Targets, stoploss, live P&L, and exit state
Advisor Profile
Credibility, history, and segmented performance
Premium Signal
Subscription surfaces and gated intelligence
A short walkthrough of the Saras product experience, advisor discovery flows, and realtime recommendation surfaces.
The Saras product experience was designed to support multilingual expansion from the beginning using structured localization workflows inside the Flutter application.
UI copy, labels, notifications, and interaction surfaces were mapped through JSON-based language key systems, allowing product surfaces to scale across multiple regional languages without changing application logic.
This enabled faster iteration across bilingual experiences while keeping delivery workflows operationally consistent across platforms.
Designed for scalable regional rollout.
Platform Evolution
Saras evolved from a lightweight Telegram recommendation tracker into a realtime multi-source platform focused on advisor transparency, execution realism, and operational reliability.
Phase 01
Early Prototype
Saras initially started as a lightweight Telegram recommendation tracker using approximate market prices from public sources. The early prototype focused on exposing advisor performance publicly through a simple web interface.
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Phase 02
Platform Expansion
The platform evolved into a multi-source ingestion system capable of processing recommendations from research reports, Twitter/X, YouTube livestreams, and financial news feeds.
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Phase 03
Realtime Infrastructure
The first execution engine ran on cron jobs and Lambda functions — matching trades on an interval, minutes behind the market, and breaking in ways that were hard to trace. It was rebuilt as a persistent realtime engine: Redis state management, websocket market feeds, and event-driven processing.
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Phase 04
Consumer Platform
After raising pre-seed funding, Saras expanded into a consumer-facing platform with Flutter applications, realtime notifications, advisor analytics, and premium recommendation delivery.
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Phase 05
Intelligence Systems
Saras introduced multidimensional filtering, advisor ranking systems, and realtime performance analytics designed to help users evaluate recommendation quality and advisor credibility.
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Phase 06
Operational Scaling
As platform scale increased, Saras added operational tooling for trade verification, advisor moderation, notification management, replay systems, and infrastructure reliability.
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Conclusion
A trust layer designed to help retail traders make more informed decisions by analyzing advisor credibility, recommendation quality, and realtime execution outcomes across fragmented financial content sources.
Operations
An exposed AWS key led to unauthorized infrastructure deletion. We rebuilt core services within six hours, then introduced scoped credentials, rotation policies, and deployment guardrails to prevent recurrence.
Public Presence
Saras evolved into a publicly visible platform through media coverage, startup ecosystems, founder conversations, and community-driven distribution.
Coverage around retail trading ecosystems and advisor transparency.
Mentioned as part of AI-driven innovation discussions in fintech.
Public discussion around building Saras and operational challenges.
Pitched Saras on national television — bringing advisor transparency to a mainstream audience.
The platform I architected and laid the foundation for — now live as Signal by Saras.
Credibility
Honest scope of technical ownership and cross-functional collaboration at Saras.