CURRICULUM VITAE / New York, NY

Salman Razzaq

AI Engineer & Engineering Leader

AI engineering leader building production systems for institutional finance. My work spans agent runtimes, document and entity intelligence, retrieval, evaluation, and the infrastructure behind enterprise workflows. I lead engineers while contributing directly to architecture and implementation, with experience across an early-stage fintech and a global financial enterprise.

01Professional experience

Hypha

Oct 2025 – Present

Engineering ManagerNew York, NY

  • Lead eight engineers while remaining hands-on across the agent platform, document intelligence, and evaluation infrastructure for institutional finance.
  • Built reusable agent execution in isolated E2B sandboxes with pluggable Claude and OpenAI runtimes, permission-scoped MCP tools, durable state, and skills/plugins.
  • Developed topology-aware synthesis and scoped extraction for entity resolution, attribute filling, document linking, and cited, versioned writes across 30K+ entities and 2M+ structured attribute values.
  • Built durable ingestion supporting 50K+ production documents across PDFs, Excel, and email, with classification, entity routing, versioning, and retry-safe recovery.
  • Developed Langfuse evaluations, LLM-as-a-judge workflows, regression datasets, and Axiom monitoring for grounding and reliability; delivered covenant analysis, credit memos, financial spreading, and reporting workflows.

AgentSmyth

Jun 2024 – Oct 2025

Staff AI EngineerNew York, NY

  • Joined as employee #2 and led technical strategy for an AI-first fintech, helping scale the business to $1M ARR and secure $9.1M in funding.
  • Architected a production multi-agent financial-intelligence platform spanning macro analysis, quantitative research, options, and sentiment using multiple model providers.
  • Combined market data, earnings transcripts, Pinecone/LlamaIndex retrieval, and agentic reasoning across 100+ financial sources to generate fully cited research.
  • Delivered portfolio insights generating 10K+ reports across 1,000+ tickers for 50+ clients, using AWS Lambda, SQS, and event-driven orchestration for SaaS and on-premises deployments.

S&P Global Market Intelligence

Nov 2021 – Jun 2024

Data Scientist → Senior Data ScientistNew York, NY

  • Built Python credit-risk models and an AWS scoring platform covering 30K+ unrated issuers, achieving 99% efficiency gains and $1.2M in annual revenue impact.
  • Developed Capital IQ Pro document intelligence with LLM summarization and topic modeling; the work identified $6.8M in revenue potential.
  • Engineered retrieval-augmented analytics APIs, transformer-based ESG disclosure analysis, and investment-banking automation including Public Information Book generation.

Earlier experience

BMW Group

Data Scientist · Internship

Mar – Aug 2021

Munich, Germany

Setai

Data Science Consultant · Contract

Aug 2020 – Feb 2021

Bologna, Italy

Packages Group

Data Engineer

Jan – Nov 2019

Lahore, Pakistan

Fatima Group

Software Engineer

Oct 2017 – Oct 2018

Pakistan

02Selected independent work

TDF Offer Alerts

Independent automation

Cloudflare-based theatre-availability monitoring, persistent seen-history, Telegram alerts and a New York morning digest, with authentication-aware browser recovery.

Civics Coach

Voice AI application

Voice-led civics practice, study and progress flows, with English-first interviews and optional Urdu explanations. Public app; private source.

Conversational scheduling with durable threads, explicit approval, transactional appointments, ownership checks, and retry protection. SMS is simulated.

Document LLM Lab

Local research experiment

Apple Silicon LoRA fine-tuning experiments for structured lease-PDF extraction, with explicit output contracts, evaluation artifacts, and synthetic-data boundaries.

CitiGRC

Business website

A remodeling business website and inquiry workflow for Long Island and New York City.

03Technical capabilities

AI systems & evaluation
Agent runtimes · MCP · Tool orchestration · RAG · Structured outputs · Langfuse · LLM-as-a-judge · Axiom
Machine learning & data
Credit-risk modeling · NLP · Entity resolution · Knowledge graphs · Document intelligence · Model validation
Engineering & infrastructure
Python · TypeScript · SQL · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · pgvector · Pinecone · AWS Lambda/SQS · E2B · Cloudflare · Docker · GitHub Actions

04Education & recognition

Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY

2024

Master of Business Administration · GPA 4.0 / 4.0

  • Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
  • Eric and Lori Kirsch Scholarship, 2023–2024

University of Bologna

2021

Master’s in Artificial Intelligence · 110 / 110 cum laude

  • Rector’s Merit Award — highest GPA in school
  • UNIBO Action 2 scholarships, 2019–2021

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

2017

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering