Dishika Goel

Designed and deployed a scalable ETL pipeline using AWS services to automate ingestion, transformation, and storage of financial data, eliminating manual processes and saving 250+ engineering hours annually Enhanced a generative AI-powered financial analysis platform by optimizing real-time data pipelines, improving market prediction accuracy by 30% for S&P 500 and global equities. Engineered and automated a CI/CD pipeline with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cutting deployment time by 80%, reducing cloud costs by 20%, and saving 100+ development hours annually

Fintech Engineer Co-op - Investment Management Fintech Strategies Team at The Vanguard Group (2023-09 – 2024-03)

• Designed and deployed a scalable ETL pipeline using AWS services to automate ingestion, transformation, and storage of financial data, eliminating manual processes and saving 250+ engineering hours annually
• Enhanced a generative AI-powered financial analysis platform by optimizing real-time data pipelines, improving market prediction accuracy by 30% for S&P 500 and global equities.
• Engineered and automated a CI/CD pipeline with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cutting deployment time by 80%, reducing cloud costs by 20%, and saving 100+ development hours annually
• Developed an interactive Index Rebalancing Dashboard using Python, OOP, and Pandas, streamlining portfolio analysis workflows, improving trade execution accuracy by 35%, and reducing manual efforts by 70%

Software Engineer Co-op - Scanless Technology Team at Amazon Robotics (2022-09 – 2023-03)

• Integrated TensorFlow RC3D+KNN models into an AWS SageMaker and Lambda-based ML infrastructure, ensuring backward compatibility, projected to save $5M annually for warehouse stow predictions
• Developed and deployed a flexible, end-to-end ML pipeline, monitored performance, published 12+ key metrics to DynamoDB, and analyzed them using AWS CloudWatch to perform production live evaluation
• Supported build tool maintenance to automate package pickup and stowing in Amazon warehouses

Software Engineer Co-op - Automated Testing Team (Options Trading Division) at Susquehanna International Group, LLP (2021-09 – 2022-03)

• Developed a chatbot feature that alerted development teams when internal options trading software passed all automated tests and were ready for deployment
• Investigated automated test results and collaborating with 3+ teams to avoid production outages
• Created an automation tool using Python and custom APIs to update testing config files to align with production, thus eliminating manual maintenance

AI Engineer & Co-Team Lead - Senior Design (Sponsor: The Vanguard Group) at Drexel University (2024-09 – 2025-06)

• Co-led development of AskVanguard, an AI-driven chatbot platform with three custom agents (RAG, FAQ/Navigation, Financial Advisor) for user support on a mock financial dashboard
• Built and deployed a FastAPI backend on AWS (EC2 + Elastic Beanstalk) with PostgreSQL, integrating OpenAI and LangChain to serve personalized, context-aware responses
• Engineered a React frontend and managed AWS infrastructure for a seamless full-stack deployment of real-time chatbot interactions

Teaching Assistant - JAVA, Python, C, Bash at Drexel University - College of Computing and Informatics (2022-09 – 2025-06)

• Conduct office hours and teach fundamental programming principles to assist students in problem-solving, along with grading laboratory and homework assignments, and providing detailed feedback within set timelines

Senior Peer Mentor at Drexel University - College of Computing and Informatics (2022-03 – 2025-06)

• Organize academic and career-focused events, including co-op and research sessions, facilitate a course orienting first-year students to university life, and conduct regular student check-ins.

Master of Science in Computer Science – Columbia University (2026-Present)

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Data Science – Drexel University (2025-06)