ShaunakMainkar

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About Me

Markets, Music & More — A Trader by passion and a Teacher by Profession

Assistant Professor

Finance faculty at IMDR, Pune with experience across 5+ reputed institutions.

Founder — Trade Encore

SEBI Registered Research Analyst firm guiding professionals in stock markets since 2020.

Published Researcher

Published research in UGC-approved international journals on investments & swing trading.

Sitar & Harmonium

Award-winning musician who has accompanied Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar and performed on All India Radio.

Academic Systems Developer

Sole developer of IMDR's academic ERP: OBE, attendance, exams, timetables, mentoring and more, across 62 live modules.

FPM Scholar

Pursuing the Fellow Programme in Management at IMDR, designing an algorithm to detect market manipulation, with industry sponsorship.

Teaching Experience

Educating across Pune's most reputed institutions

2023 – Present
  • Teaching Security Analysis & Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Financial Planning & Wealth Management, Financial Management, Accounting for Managers and Managerial Economics.
  • Using Excel, TradingView, live market simulations, case discussions and research-based classroom activities for applied learning.
  • Contributing to OBE implementation, course files, attainment and gap analysis, mentoring, specialisation counselling, examination planning and NBA/NAAC-ready documentation, including NBA Criterion 3.
  • Designed and built the institute's academic ERP and practical examination system (see Academic Systems).
Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce

Full-time Faculty (2019-20) · Visiting Faculty (2021-22)

2019 – 2022
  • Taught Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Principles of Finance, Cost Accounting, Global Business Environment.
  • Conducted stock market basic & advanced credit courses.
  • Participated in Board of Studies for Accountancy and NAAC Criterion V meetings.
2019 – 2022
  • Managerial Accounting for BBA-LLB course.
  • Designed and conducted 24-hour Financial Markets certificate courses.
Modern College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Warje

Visiting Faculty · College Exam Officer

2020 – 2022
  • Taught Cost & Works Accounting and Financial Accounting.
  • Successfully conducted SPPU semester exams as College Exam Officer.
2018 – 2019
  • Taught Business Economics and Business Informatics.

Academic Systems

I build and run the academic ERP at IMDR.

Sole developer

IMDR Academic ERP

Covers the academic side of the institute: attendance, timetables, OBE and course files, continuous assessment, exams, results and marksheets, placements and internships, faculty mentoring, and an AI language lab, across student, faculty and office portals.

62

Live Modules

~399

Endpoints

80

Server Files

160

Automated Test Suites

Google Sheets & Drive (system of record)Google Apps ScriptCloudflare WorkersSarvam AIPlaywright

Mentoring Hub

One view of all of a faculty mentor's mentees, built to remove the paperwork from mentoring, not to add a screen to it.

Proctored online tests

Full-screen MCQ engine with a single attempt, used for placement screening.

Systems Designed & Delivered

Eighteen academic processes, each taken from paperwork to a live system, all completed and in use.

Outcome-Based Education

  • Optimised OBE system
  • CO Generator using Bloom's Taxonomy
  • Automation of CO–PO–GAPC mapping
  • CO attainment, PO attainment and gap analysis automation
  • Session plan automation
  • Digitisation and process automation of course files

Attendance

  • QR-based student attendance system
  • Attendance exception handling, with event attendance integrated into subject attendance sheets
  • Real-time attendance communication to students

Assessment & Examinations

  • Hall ticket generation mechanism
  • Online subjective exam mechanism for self-paced learning, with identification of slow and fast learners
  • Student feedback mechanism

Timetables & Scheduling

  • Personal, daily and implemented timetable automation
  • Timetable Scheduler
  • Subject selection system for electives and specialisations

Dashboards & Student Support

  • Student and faculty dashboards
  • Mentoring dashboard
  • AI Language Lab
Separate system

Practical Examination System

A computer-based exam system for practical papers such as SAPM, Derivatives and Financial Modelling. Built outside the ERP as its own system.

Engineering Decisions

Attendance that can't be proxied

Lecture check-in runs on a QR code with a rotating 6-digit code. A screenshot forwarded to a friend expires before it can be used, so attendance is marked only by students in the room.

ID cards that open as vCards

Every ID card carries a QR code that opens a vCard. One scan saves the holder's contact details straight to a phone, with no app and no typing.

Indianising the AI layer

Shifting the ERP's AI features from Gemini to Sarvam AI, an Indian model provider built for Indian languages, so the AI dependence sits with an Indian stack.

Indian hosting on Zoho Catalyst

Chose Zoho Catalyst over Vercel for Indian hosting. The migration runs module by module on a frozen sheet schema, so every step can be rolled back. Window-gated modules move only while their window is shut; exam modules only between exam cycles.

Designed for a six-minute limit

Apps Script stops any run at six minutes. Long jobs such as elective scheduling, consolidated attendance and marksheet batches run as resumable two-step jobs, with a caching layer in front of Sheets.

Tests before features

No feature ships without a test written first. Six layers of testing, from unit tests up to synthetic probes against the live site.

Trade Encore

Your Financial Doctor — Professional market research, made accessible

2020

Founded

SEBI

Registered Research Analyst

Zero Debt

Bootstrapped Organisation

BSE 5530

Enlistment Number

Trade Encore is a SEBI-registered Research Analyst firm (INH000009269) providing research-backed stock recommendations, mutual fund insights, and derivative strategies. We study the market so you don't have to — clear research, honest views, and a process you can trust.

Built on a "bootstrapping" philosophy — financed entirely through own funds with a strict zero-debt policy from inception. The website, product development, legal formalities, compliance, sales & marketing and accounting are entirely handled in-house.

Our flagship product Trade Encore Radar empowers retail investors with professional, research-backed market insights through a Research Operating System that combines data, strategy, detection and AI-driven analysis.

SEBI Registration No.: INH000009269 | BSE Enlistment No.: 5530 — Investment in securities market are subject to market risks.

Research & Publications

Subject of Research: Indian Equity and Derivatives Markets

2024

“Exploring Algorithmic Solutions for Effective Decisions Concerning Investments in Equity Stocks Amidst Financial Disruptions Using the COVID 19 and Sub-prime Crises as Case Studies”

Published Research

Cited by 1

2024

“Indian Financial System’s Readiness for LIBOR-to-SOFR Transition: An Analytical Study”

Published Research

Cited by 1

2024

“Applying Point Planning in the Indian Derivatives Market: A Step towards a Resilient Viksit Bharat”

Published Research

2024

“Niti: Navigating Indian Traditions in Industry”

Published Research

2023

“Cultivating Success: Millets as a Path to Sustainable Development”

Published Research

Feb 2020

“Swing Trading: A Milestone towards Financial Innovation”

Our Heritage (UGC Approved)

May 2019

“Unravelling the Science behind Investments”

IJRAR (UGC Approved)

Course & Study Material Design

  • Designed Basic and Advanced courses on Financial Markets (24 hours each) for Shri Navalmal Firodia Law College, Pune.
  • Designed a book on Financial Literacy as a Subject Matter Expert — textbook for grades 1 to 5 in international schools.
YouTube Shorts

Latest Shorts

Quick market insights, stock tips & investment education in bite-sized shorts.

All Shorts

Beyond Work

Music, mentorship, and more

Musician

  • 2nd prize in Pan-India competition by Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. for playing sitar.
  • Accompanied Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar with sitar for an album recording.
  • Accompanied playing harmonium at All India Radio recordings.

Other Achievements

  • Winner of Fyers 30-day challenge on derivatives trading.
  • Content writing training under Vaishvik Shodh Pvt. Ltd (life skills domain).
  • Award of appreciation from Sankalp Kala Manch for implementing a new idea on a considerable scale.
  • Career counselling sessions across colleges in Pune on skill development.

Stock Talk

A 10-day free program on financial markets arranged during lockdown — attended by 300+ participants including Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Musicians, Chartered Accountants and others.

Watch on YouTube

Let's Connect

Whether it's about academics, stock markets, or collaboration — I'd love to hear from you.