Suraj Harikumar

About Suraj Harikumar

Passionate professional, 10 years building across Finance Services, AI/Automation, and real user traction. From idea to production to adoption at scale.As VP at Goldman Sachs (10 years), I\'ve built solutions for managing trillion-dollar balance sheets, and launched analytics platforms serving 100+ users with hours of annual usage. I deployed regulatory compliance solutions using Claude and other LLMs, I thrive in environments of change, learning, adapting, and managing stakeholder communications up and down. My approach: solve the business problem, drive adoption through enablement, not mandates.I\'m Volunteer with CFA Society India\'s AI Research Group, leading our industry report on \"AI in Indian Financial Services\". I\'ve also designed and delivered workshops to 200+ finance professionals on quantitative investing and AI applications, live Python code walkthroughs on factor investing, AI tools and build your own stack. Credentials: CFA Charterholder, IIT Madras, GS Innovation Award Runner-Up, published researcher.Open to conversations about AI deployment in financial services, building platforms people want to use, and translating AI capabilities into business value.Daily stack: Python, Claude (4-5 hours/day for prototyping and code generation), SQL. Current focus: agentic workflows, RAG architectures, Marketing AI, and making AI accessible to non-technical stakeholders in regulated industries.(Always happy to discuss Star Trek, gaming, or new tech!)

Experience

1. Vice President of Treasury Risk

   Goldman Sachs

   Apr 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Quantitative modelling & analytics for Goldman Sachs Treasury Management, worked on products like loans, deposits, risk hedging - Led team responsible for Economic value of balance sheet (EVE), to measure Bank Equity under fair market valuation, and IR stress events. Drove uplifts to metrics & analytics for regulatory remediations- Developed regulatory validation system using internal LLMs: reduced manual review time by 60%

Education

• Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School, KK Nagar, Chennai

  Middle School, High school, Computer Science Speicalization

  1996 — 2011

• Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

  Dual Degree ( BTech + MTech ), Electrical Engineering

  2011 — 2016

Skills

• Algorithms
• Django
• Web Development
• C++
• Quantitative Finance
• Matlab
• Python
• Latex
• Open Source
• Signal Processing
• Amazon Ec2
• Phpmyadmin
• Android Development
• Data Analysis
• Git
• Ubuntu
• Web Design
• Php
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Risk Analysis
• Android
• Computer Science
• C
• Programming
• Mysql
• Error Correcting Codes
• Html
• Lyx
• Javascript