Ishaan Sharma

AI Engineer specialising in production-grade multi-agent systems, ReAct, hierarchical delegation, MCP servers and RAG pipelines. MSc Advanced Computing with 2 years building and deploying ML systems for Capital Markets.

Market Risk Analyst (Quantitative Engineering) at IDFC FIRST Bank (2023-06 – 2024-08)

• Generated INR 200 Cr+ in new trading book orders by prototyping and shipping Python valuation frameworks for NDF and Bond FRA asset classes while resolving integration failures between front-office logic and legacy vendor APIs.
• Accelerated regulatory compliance workflows by architecting an LLM-based automated scanning system for RBI and FEDAI circulars and implemented structured change management to eliminate manual monitoring by up to 80%.
• Expanded the Loan Against Securities book by 15% by engineering an XGBoost predictive scoring model that increased the eligible collateral pool by 20% through automated Python pipelines over equity market data.

Data Scientist at CRISIL (2022-02 – 2022-08)

• Accelerated quarterly report turnaround by 85% empowering the CriSidEx MSME index for public sector and banking clients by deploying a business sentiment classifier leveraging HuggingFace Transformers (BERT) and PyTorch.
• Enabled on-demand semantic search across 10,000+ XML filings by engineering a FinBERT and spaCy NER pipeline, deployed as a client-facing Dockerised FastAPI microservice.

Master of Science in Advanced Computing (Distinction) – King's College London (2024-09 – 2026-01)

Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Computer Science with Business Systems – Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) (2019-07 – 2023-05)