Sahil Agrawal

Computer Science and Economics at the University of Chicago

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Software Intern, Policy Engineering at Veeam Software
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

  • Engineering Intern at Blackthorne Capital Management LLC
    Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    - Engineered a RAG-powered research assistant integrating LLMs with retrieval pipelines to automate charting and research note generation, boosting analyst productivity and enabling faster response to market-moving events. - Built automated data pipelines in Python to ingest, transform, and validate performance metrics across 20+ strategies, cutting manual reporting time by 60%. - Developed Markov regime-switching models and LASSO regression systems to detect market regimes and predict commodity returns, informing portfolio positioning decisions on $10M in assets.

  • Researcher at WordPower Project
    Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos

    - Developed algorithms and strategies to predict securities performance and risk - Developed data pipelines to collect and parse text data from earning call transcripts using Python. - Applied Natural Language Processing (sentiment extraction, topic modeling) to transcripts data.

  • Engineer at SwingBeats
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

    - Developed wearable tech to help users self-learn dancing - Created motion representations of tap dance moves and their sequences - Designed and implemented sensors and algorithms to capture, encode and analyze the movement data, and actuators to convert it back to physical prompts.