Sahil Agrawal

Senior Analyst at Goldman Sachs

Dallas, Texas, United States

About

I am a software engineer with over 5 years of experience specializing in building and designing scalable backend systems. My career has been focused on delivering reliable, high-performance platforms within the demanding fintech, banking, and logistics domains. I'm passionate about solving complex engineering problems at scale. I thrive on architecting distributed services , optimizing data pipelines, and designing microservices that create real-world impact. My goal is always to improve reliability and scalability. Beyond my work in financial technology, I am always learning and am currently expanding my knowledge in cloud platforms and artificial intelligence. When I'm not coding, I'm a passionate sports enthusiast and a musician who loves playing both the piano and the flute.

Experience

  • Goldman Sachs (Dallas, Texas, United States · On-site)
    • Senior Analyst
      Nov 2025 - Present · 6 mos

    • Analyst
      Jun 2025 - Nov 2025 · 6 mos

      My work is about protecting the firm's financial stability. I'm one of the engineers for our critical liquidity risk platforms, which means I dive deep into regulatory models to find and fix logic flaws. My goal is to ensure our systems are always accurate and compliant. I also help re-architect our risk data pipelines, hunting for bottlenecks and debugging integrations to make sure our data is fast, reliable, and trustworthy.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Alongside my Master's, I took on a TA position to help guide some brilliant minds at RPI. I mentored over 200 students in foundational courses like Computer Architecture, Human Computer Interaction and web design. My goal was to bridge the gap between theory and practice, which I did by leading interactive labs, code reviews, and debugging workshops.

  • Associate Technology Level 2 at Publicis Sapient
    Dec 2021 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

    I was part of a team helping a major U.S. bank modernize its core payment systems. I led the design for a new wire payments processor, which was a complex project that had to handle everything from fraud scoring to card integrations. The new system I helped build made their whole platform far more resilient. I also built their new reconciliation pipelines, which finally gave them a fast and consistent way to settle their ledgers.

  • Software Engineer at FIS
    Aug 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    My focus at FIS was making payment systems safer and more reliable. I engineered a new fraud detection system using Kafka that allowed our team to catch and stop fraudulent transactions in real-time, which was a huge win. I also took ownership of the merchant-facing Billing Admin Portal, where I re-engineered the backend to make it fast and responsive for our users. I was also one of the go-to engineers for solving critical, high-pressure bugs in our POS systems.