Ishan Nair

Ishan Nair

Building intelligent software that transforms data into decisions.

I'm a Computational Modeling & Data Analytics student focused on AI, software engineering, automation, and data-driven systems. I enjoy building products that combine thoughtful engineering with practical impact.

About

I enjoy solving difficult technical problems.

Most of my work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, software engineering, and data.

Whether it's building AI agent systems, automating financial workflows, or designing analytical dashboards, I enjoy turning complex problems into intuitive software.

I'm always interested in learning new technologies and building projects that challenge me.

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Engineering
  • Automation
  • Data Engineering
  • Financial Analysis
  • Machine Learning

Outside of work, I follow Manchester United and the Indian cricket team — both a decent crash course in reading probability, variance, and misplaced optimism, which turns out to transfer to modeling better than I expected.

Experience

Where I've worked and studied

Investcorp

Data Science Intern

Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

Manama, Bahrain

Worked on internal software and financial automation at a global alternative investment manager with roughly $60B in assets under management.

  • Built Python reconciliation pipelines with Pandas and NumPy for record-level matching between the fund accounting system and bank accounts
  • Explored the feasibility of applying machine learning to bank-level reconciliations traditionally done by hand
  • Designed and maintained Power BI dashboards connected to live financial databases, used in finance and line-of-business leadership meetings
  • Applied rapid, iterative prototyping techniques across reconciliation and reporting workflows, then presented the approach to the global IT team

Virginia Tech

B.S. Computational Modeling & Data Analytics

Aug 2023 — May 2027

Blacksburg, Virginia

Coursework spans algorithms, machine learning, statistics, and software engineering, with an emphasis on turning data into decisions.

  • Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistics
  • Data Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Database Systems

Featured Projects

Systems I've built

A selection of projects spanning AI agents, financial automation, and data-driven decision tools.

AI Football Recruitment Platform

Multi-agent system for evidence-based player evaluation

2025

PythonAnthropic ClaudePydanticStreamlitMulti-agent architecture

A multi-agent AI system that simulates a football club's operations department, evaluating players through specialized reasoning agents instead of one model trying to do everything at once.

Problem
Player evaluation blends statistical performance, tactical fit, and financial feasibility. Asking a single model to reason across all of it at once produces muddled analysis, and gives the model no reason not to fill data gaps with confident guesses.
Solution
Specialist agents — Scout, Performance Analytics, Tactical Fit, Transfer Market, and a Devil's Advocate — each own one slice of the analysis and communicate through shared, schema-enforced contracts. Every agent is grounded in an actual player data layer and stays explicit about what it can't verify rather than filling gaps with model recall. A General Manager agent orchestrates the specialists; a Report agent turns their findings into a narrative without being allowed to redecide the verdict.
Outcome
A single evidence-based recommendation — Buy, Monitor, or Do Not Sign — with a full audit trail of sources used, data freshness, and a built-in challenge to the majority view, surfaced through an interactive Streamlit interface.

Investment Research Dashboard

Self-updating research platform for long-term investors

2025

PythonYahoo Finance APIAnthropic / OpenAIExcel automation

A financial research platform that keeps a tracked list of companies current automatically, built for long-term investment reasoning rather than headline-chasing.

Problem
Long-term research decays fast: financials go stale after earnings, relevant news gets buried in noise, and re-reading filings for a dozen companies every quarter doesn't scale by hand.
Solution
A CLI-driven automation layer refreshes financials quarterly and news daily per ticker, pulling from Yahoo Finance and generating AI business analysis through a provider-agnostic client that switches between Anthropic and OpenAI with a single config change. Every ticker is processed independently, so one failure never aborts the run for the rest. Results are written into a structured, versioned Excel workbook.
Outcome
A research file that stays current on its own, cross-references companies against each other, and reasons from the underlying numbers instead of restating consensus opinion.

Financial Reconciliation Engine

Automated matching between independent financial systems

2025

PythonPandasNumPy

Reconciliation automation built during my internship at Investcorp, comparing bank-level financial records across independent systems that had previously been matched by hand.

Problem
Reconciling two independent record sets — the fund accounting system and bank statements — by hand is slow, and mismatches are easy to miss until they compound.
Solution
A pipeline matches transactions exactly first, falls back to fuzzy matching for near-duplicates the exact pass misses, then classifies whatever's left into labeled exception categories with a confidence score instead of leaving them as an undifferentiated pile.
Outcome
Cut manual review time by surfacing only the transactions that genuinely need a human look, with every match traceable back to its source records.

Executive Power BI Dashboard

Live technology-spend reporting for leadership

2025

Power BIDAXSQL

An interactive dashboard tracking technology spending across business units, built to replace a static monthly reporting cycle.

Problem
Leadership needed a current view of technology spend across business units without waiting on the next manual report.
Solution
Built interactive dashboards using DAX measures, slicers, and drill-through functionality, connected directly to live financial databases so figures reflect same-day activity rather than a monthly export.
Outcome
Replaced static monthly decks with a self-serve tool finance and line-of-business leadership could query directly in planning meetings.

Skills

Tools I work with

Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS

AI

  • OpenAI API
  • Claude
  • Prompt Engineering
  • LLMs
  • AI Agents
  • RAG
  • Automation

Data

  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • Power BI
  • Excel
  • Data Visualization
  • Statistical Analysis

Development

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TailwindCSS
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Streamlit
  • REST APIs

Finance

  • Financial Modeling
  • Investment Research
  • Business Intelligence
  • Financial Analysis
  • Dashboard Development

Contact

Let's talk

Open to conversations about AI systems, software engineering, and data-driven products.