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Buy-side Analyst turned AI Engineer

Finance runs on trust.
So should its AI.

Three years inside hedge-fund operations showed me exactly where analysts lose their day. I reduced some of that friction by building pipelines to automate recurring OMS/PMS workflows, Compliance checks, Trade control, and Risk alerts. Now, going after real operational leverage, I design and ship agentic AI that fund managers can actually adopt – all backed by strong guardrails and evaluation. From Trade Ops to AI Ops, I got you covered.

Recent highlight My engine called all 4 World Cup 2026 semifinalists and both finalists
3+
Years in buy-side finance
2
Years building AI at UW–Madison
5+
AI projects shipped
Kavit Mehta at UW–Madison
On,
Wisconsin!

The analyst clients counted on, now building AI you can count on.

01 · The analyst — 2021–2024

At Enfusion (now Clearwater Analytics) I managed buy-side client accounts for three years. When a P&L looked off, a valuation needed defending, or a trade broke, clients escalated to me — fund accounting, performance, valuation, and risk across multi-asset portfolios. Beyond answering the questions, I automated OMS and PMS workflows, managed market-data vendors, and trained junior analysts.

02 · Graduate school — 2024–2026

Then I went to master the other side. At UW–Madison I learned to engineer agentic AI and shipped it outside finance to prove the skill travels. For MSA Professional Services, I delivered agent-run ETL pipelines in Microsoft Fabric that documented decades of ERP data, with copilot agents on top so users could query the data in plain English. For another firm, I built an Azure AI decision-support tool that automated the statistical analysis step in a steel-parts manufacturing process.

03 · Now

Same vision, new tooling: be the one people can rely on. I ship AI agents with the guardrails and evaluation to earn that reliance — data pipelines and cloud deployment included. Spring 2026 graduate, open to relocation.

  • Trade operations, Risk, Pricing & Valuation
  • Agentic AI systems, RAG pipelines & MCP workflows
  • SQL, Python, C++, Tableau, ML & data engineering
  • Product management & stakeholder communication
The full path
2016–2021
NMIMS University
BTech, Information Technology
2019–2020
Reliance Jio Creative Labs
Market Research Intern
2019–2021
NMIMS University
MBA, Finance
2020–2021
Ecovia
Product Marketing Manager
2021–2024
Enfusion (now Clearwater Analytics)
Financial Analyst → Senior Financial Analyst
2024–2026
University of Wisconsin–Madison
MS, Information

Where the industry knowledge comes from.

Enfusion (now Clearwater Analytics)
Senior Financial Analyst
Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 years
PMS / OEMS Trade Operations Bloomberg · Refinitiv Post-trade Compliance Client Success
Regulatory risk
Allocation exceptions flagged
on live PMS data
Market-abuse risk
Short sales, wash trades &
CFTC reporting monitored
Data-integrity risk
Bloomberg & Refinitiv breaks
owned to resolution
Operational risk
Trade, position & cash
reconciliations automated
⚖️
Reduced regulatory risk
Automated post-trade reporting in collaboration with Compliance, flagging allocation exceptions using live PMS data.
🚨
Improved electronic trade monitoring
Designed CI/CD controls to flag short-sale exceptions, potential wash trades, and CFTC reporting on live trading data.
🛡️
Reduced data-integrity risk
Owned Bloomberg and Refinitiv breaks, collaborating with Data Engineering to quickly resolve discrepancies across systematic pricing models.
🔁
Cut client operations waste 20%+
Automated trade, position, and cash reconciliations and mitigated duplicate reporting across client accounts.
📉
Reduced churn by 22%
Managed separate client accounts, ensuring timely and accurate reporting of multi-asset risk and P&L.
🚀
Supported revenue growth across 15+ deals
Gave tailored product onboarding and training to new funds, collaborating closely with sales teams.
⏱️
Improved SLA performance
Cut average query resolution time by 15 minutes by analyzing and optimizing JIRA support queues and escalation workflows using Power BI.
👥
Mentored junior analysts
Trained juniors in issue triaging and investigation, assuring quality through strict documentation standards and shared knowledge.

AI Projects (you can trust)

The Bracket Analyst — FIFA World Cup 2026 knockout predictor
Agentic AI · Full-Stack · Claude

Fills your World Cup bracket with Elo-grounded odds — the same odds FIFA uses in its world rankings — and an upset-watch engine that sizes your boldness to your pool. It's the engine behind my own 2026 run.

Why trust it
The full bracket is published on the case study and graded match by match against the real tournament. It called all 4 semifinalists and both finalists, and the one wrong pick is shown too. 287 automated tests verify the odds calculations.
Pocket Scout — Fantasy Premier League Advisor
Agentic AI · Full-Stack · Claude

Transfer, captaincy, and chip advice for your exact Fantasy Premier League squad — plus a chat that answers any question about your team.

Why trust it
The AI can't invent stats — every number comes from a deterministic scoring engine over live FPL data, and its accuracy is backtested against a decade of seasons with the results published either way.
MSA Professional Services
Data & AI Engineering

Agent-run ETL pipelines that document a Dynamics 365 ERP at scale — saving months of analyst time — with Copilot agents on top so anyone can query the warehouse in plain English.

Why trust it
Nothing ships on the AI's word alone — a human approves every generated definition before it enters the data dictionary, so the source of truth stays governed end to end.
More builds
Agentic AI · Equity Research

An equity-research agent with 19 financial analysis tools — live quotes, technicals, options chain, filings, and cross-signal synthesis.

Why trust it
It can't answer from stale training data — a mandatory 7-step pipeline forces live quotes, technicals, options, and filings into context before any view is allowed.
Read case study
Agentic AI · Manufacturing

An Azure AI Foundry workflow that turns raw manufacturing process data into leadership-ready capability assessments.

Why trust it
Statistical stability checks run first — if the process is unstable, the AI refuses to score it. The same discipline a quality engineer would apply, enforced in code.
Read case study
RAG · AI Sustainability

A RAG chatbot that answers questions on AI's energy and water footprint from 50+ scholarly articles.

Why trust it
Every number in an answer links back to the paper it came from — and when the sources don't hold an answer, it says so instead of guessing.
Read case study

Thoughts, Experiences, and Life

Story from 2019
2 min read
For the Actors, By the Actors

Three years in a drama club — scripting, directing, acting. Our most memorable chapter: finishing third out of twenty at ACTFest Rangmanch 2019, performing Sharad Joshi's timeless satirical classic, एक था गधा.

Story from 2017
3 min read
I Once Went 8 Days Without Food

I am a spiritual person who follows Jainism. In August of 2017, I did what's called an Atthai — a completely optional, voluntary practice — and what I didn't fully appreciate at the time was how defining it would become.

Story from 2020
3 min read
Comics for Change

Back in 2020, while working at Jio Creative Labs, my team and I created a new IP called Comics for Change — a live comedy event with a purpose. The idea was simple but ambitious: invite top stand-up comedians to perform sets tied to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Story from 2019
2 min read
Conquered the Everest of Maharashtra

Kalsubai. Standing at 5,400 feet above sea level, it is the highest peak in Maharashtra — affectionately known as the "Everest of Maharashtra." In July 2019, my roommates and I decided we were going to climb it.

Contact

Let's build something.

Hiring for a role at the intersection of finance and AI — or want to automate a workflow your team is drowning in? One email is all it takes.

ksmehta5@wisc.edu