Rishal Raj

Bootstrapped and running a full service AI & Robotics firm, specializing in deeply integrated solutions, deployed on-ground to solve real problems, with $70+ profits in a little over 11 months. Worked with early stage startups like Intugine, big companies like GS and MG, and everything in between. Primary areas of contribution are Machine Learning/AI and Hardware Robotics. My role revolved around working deeply with the clients and their existing systems to create the solutions, design the POC, and enable an industry ready solution for deployment Served as outsourced CPO to multiple early stage startups, involved with delivering product development and deployment, alongside building multiple 2-5 person teams during in-house expansion

Built a Transformer based ML model for extraction and synthesis of information, designed into a platform to augment knowledge workers and increase their throughput. The platform enabled better citation and reference capabilities which is crucial for research/knowledge work Raised $100k+, and partnered with 4 universities, and 2 law firms across the US, to pilot the platform. Sold it to the existing team due to a major personal accident leaving me unable to work for over a year

Worked as part of the Market Risk Division, responsible for the Market Risk Models, and the creation of its automation infrastructure. Part of the Data Lake initiative Built an automation model for the firmwide infrastructure issues alert system to automatically identify and resolve issues using Machine Learning, and learn from user input in the case of automation failure via labelled data consolidate from user actions Designed the transition for infrastructure platforms and databases to isolated routing servers for better hardware isolation and security.