Krish Shah — computer engineer and AI researcher
i build agentic AI and scalable risk platforms for institutional finance at Clearwater Analytics
my background spans financial engineering, machine learning, and systems development — from quant risk platforms to grounded LLM systems for clinical and research use
b.s. computer engineering, boston university · m.s. computer science, georgia tech
Experience
Clearwater Analytics
building institution agentic AI and scalable risk/analytics platforms for institutional investment management, joined through the acquisition of Beacon Platform
Kolachalama Lab, Boston University
researched grounding LLMs in clinical applications using RAG, biomedical fine-tuning, and multimodal data to reduce hallucinations
State Street
built a CI/CD automation framework for Snowflake resource deployment using Harness and Liquibase
Beacon Platform
built an internal RAG system with Llama-3 to automate RFI responses and a financial risk modeling prototype for multi-asset stress testing
Beacon Platform
built an automated data quality framework integrating Great Expectations with Snowflake for validation and compliance across financial datasets
Princeton Equity Group
built ML models for time series forecasting and NLP to improve M&A target identification on the FusionPoint platform
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
built MPI-parallelized processors for Delta, an adaptive streaming framework bridging fusion experiments to NERSC supercomputers for sub-10-minute plasma pulse analysis
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
m.s. computer science, computing systems specialization
4.0/4.0 — GPU hardware and software, data and visual analytics, ML for trading
researching AI agents and LLM security under Dr. Vijay Madisetti (IEEE Fellow)
Boston University
b.s. computer engineering, machine learning concentration
FIRST Robotics Presidential Scholar (half-tuition, top 0.5% of engineering admits), Order of the Engineer
Leadership & Community
Marigold Academy
advising on digital infrastructure and designing a custom LMS for an early education franchise network
Boy Scouts of America – Troop 112
mentored 40+ scouts through rank advancement and supported 10+ eagle scout projects as assistant scoutmaster
FIRST LEGO League – NanoHounds
coached 40+ middle school students in robotics and autonomous programming through FLL competitions
FIRST Tech Challenge – TechHounds
led strategy and match prep for a high school robotics team, securing Inspire and Design awards
Awards & Honors
FIRST Robotics Presidential Scholar
top 0.5% of BU engineering admits, half-tuition merit scholarship with research funding
Eagle Scout with Silver Palm
highest rank in scouting, awarded to less than 0.02% of scouts
Coca-Cola Scholar Semifinalist
1,617 of 90,000+ applicants nationwide
Datathon Finalist
selected as 1 of 100 from ~7,000 applicants for the Citadel Summer Invitational
Second Degree Black Belt
songahm taekwondo