About
I'm Tanam, a Global Business student at Trinity College Dublin, originally from India, finishing my degree in May 2026. I've spent four years doing the international student thing in Dublin: new city, new country, figure it out as you go. It's been good. But I'm genuinely ready to stop being a student and actually start building something that matters.
Aviation finance wasn't on the syllabus. Ireland just happens to be the global capital of aircraft leasing, AerCap, Avolon, SMBC Aviation, Air Lease all have serious operations here, and once I started reading about how lessors actually work, the credit structures, the portfolio risk, the repossession dynamics, I couldn't stop. So I went down the rabbit hole properly. I did IALTA's Aircraft Lease Training, an Airbus A320 CEO General Familiarisation course (yes, I now know what a life-limited part is), and Introduction to Technical Records, all outside of university, all self-initiated.
Last year at Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Dublin 2026, I was genuinely blown away. Being in a room with lessors, operators, and industry execs talking about where aviation is headed, the credit dynamics, the tech shifts, the regulatory changes, it just crystallized everything I'd been reading about. That conference was the entry point I needed, the real industry perspective. I talked to so many people who actually live this market every day. That's when it clicked that I needed to build something.
At some point it made more sense to build something than to keep reading about it. That's how Aviation Finance Insights happened. Not a class project. Not a hackathon submission. Just a tool I built because the gap was obvious, and I wanted to see if I actually understood the domain well enough to engineer something useful out of it.
The Tool
Aviation Finance Insights is a risk analytics platform built for aircraft lessors. The core problem it solves: stress testing a lease portfolio the traditional way means weeks in Excel, opaque assumptions, and outputs that only the person who built the model can interpret. That's not a risk management tool, that's a liability dressed up as one.
The platform runs five pre-built stress scenarios, a COVID-style demand shock with operator-differentiated default multipliers, an oil price spike modelling narrowbody vs. widebody lease rate compression, a +200bps interest rate shock, a geopolitical crisis scenario with jurisdiction-specific repossession delay multipliers (Russia 3.0x, China 2.5x, US/UK 1.0x), and a fully custom scenario builder. Across all five, it calculates seven quantitative risk metrics: Expected Loss, VaR at 95% via Monte Carlo simulation, HHI concentration risk, cash flow at risk, recovery analysis by jurisdiction, breakeven on security deposits, and geographic exposure. Methodology benchmarked against Moody's Aviation Lessor Ratings.
Upload a portfolio as CSV. Run all five scenarios simultaneously. Export institutional-quality reports for a credit committee, in under an hour. Or use one of the three built-in demo portfolios to see it in action immediately. There's also a full methodology whitepaper if you want to pressure-test the assumptions. You should.
Outside the Terminal
Dublin is genuinely a great city for hiking, which surprised me when I got here. Howth, Wicklow, the Cliff Walk, I try to get out most weekends. I also run a lot: around the Liffey, through campus (Trinity's cobblestones are not ideal but they build character), early morning before the city wakes up. It's where most of the thinking actually happens.
I spent a whole year on Erasmus exchange in Paris. Loved it. The aesthetics, the culture, the pace of life, the food obviously. Paris has this way of making you think differently. Walking along the Seine at sunset, sitting in cafes for hours, the architecture, the way people just live. It changed how I see things. I came back to Dublin with a different perspective on what matters and how to actually enjoy building something instead of just grinding through it.
I play esports more competitively than I probably should admit. I follow cricket obsessively and football even more so, I'm a Barcelona fan, which means the result on Saturday directly determines my Sunday mood. I swim when I remember to, which is less often than I'd like.
One thing I genuinely care about, not as a CV line, but as a real thing, is working with underprivileged kids. I've volunteered with a charity doing that here in Dublin, and it's one of the few things that consistently reminds you what actually matters. I also love dog cafes. Dublin has a couple of good ones. Will give recommendations unprompted.
On the competition side, I got 3rd place in the ESB Case Competition last semester, out of 25 teams at Trinity. It was intense. But the one I'm really proud of is the VCIC (Venture Capital Investment Competition), where I got 3rd place nationally in Ireland as part of the Trinity team. That taught me how to think like an investor, how to read markets, how to spot what actually matters in a business. Those skills directly shaped how I built Aviation Finance Insights.
I'm the kind of person who reads about a new AI model at 1am and tells himself it counts as research. I'm genuinely obsessed with what's being built right now, not just in aviation tech but across the board. Big ambitions, not vague "change the world" stuff, but the kind where you want to build things that are actually useful, do work that is genuinely good for people, and not spend your 20s doing something forgettable.
Let's Talk
Analyst, portfolio, risk, or deals side, I'm open to where I can be most useful. If you work in aviation finance and want to see a demo, talk about the platform, or just think I should know something about this industry, reach out.