I build AI-powered financial systems, decision engines, and scalable product platforms at the intersection of:
- 💳 Payments & Financial Infrastructure
- 🤖 AI / LLM Applications
- 📈 Risk & Decision Systems
- ⚡ Real-Time Data Platforms
- 🏦 FinTech & Capital Markets
- AI-powered decision systems for financial workflows
- Agentic evaluation frameworks for trustworthy AI
- Real-time fraud and transaction intelligence systems
- Prototyping payment and risk infrastructure tools
- Building products that combine AI + compliance + human trust
- Agentic AI workflows
- Evaluation systems for LLM reliability
- AI-assisted product development workflows
- Decision orchestration systems
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
- AI-native product management
- FinTech infrastructure
- AI evaluation frameworks
- Payment systems
- Open-source AI tooling
- Real-time analytics platforms
- Decision intelligence systems
- AI + financial systems
- Payments & transaction workflows
- Fraud detection & risk scoring
- Human-in-the-loop AI
- Product strategy for complex systems
- AI product experimentation
- Infrastructure for trustworthy AI
- OpenAI
- Claude
- LangChain
- RAG Pipelines
- LLM Evaluations
- Prompt Engineering
- Python
- FastAPI
- Kafka
- Spark / PySpark
- APIs & Microservices
- CI/CD Pipelines
- Streamlit
- Figma
- Lovable
- Kiro
- Wasabi
- n8n
- SQL
- Tableau
- Real-Time Data Pipelines
- Decision Systems
- Risk Analytics
Pre-authorization fraud decision engine combining telecom signals, behavioral patterns, and transaction intelligence for real-time risk scoring.
Evaluation framework for explainable, auditable, and compliant AI decisions in financial systems.
Experimental AI-driven financial infrastructure platform exploring trust, payments, and decision orchestration.
- 🏦 Bank of America — Real-time risk & payment systems
- 🤖 Meta — AI evaluation systems & feedback loops
- 🚀 Barclays RISE FinTech Incubator
- 📊 Quantitative Engineering & Risk Analytics
Built platforms supporting:
- $100M–$500M+ transaction flows
- Real-time analytics across 100TB+ data pipelines
- AI evaluation systems processing 1K+ conversations/month
- AI product management
- FinTech systems
- Payments infrastructure
- Product strategy
- Real-time decision systems
- LLM workflows
- Scaling AI products in regulated environments
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/smithashivakumar
- Website: smithashivakumar.com
I enjoy turning messy, high-stakes systems into scalable product workflows — especially where AI, finance, and human decision-making intersect.