# Amay Bhatnagar **Product Analyst** — Los Angeles, CA, United States > Economics and econometrics student who builds AI agents and data tools for investment diligence, finance operations, and consulting work. Currently working as a Product Analyst at Entrepreneur Ventures while finishing an M.S. in Applied Econometrics at USC. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Artisan** (HS-MX) — One of the first Launchpad Artisans on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amayb0240 - GitHub: https://github.com/amay-bhat ## Experience ### Finance & Product Intern, Techstars / Sensate Robotics (2026-03 – 2026-07) Los Angeles, CA · Built a daily AI reconciliation and reporting tool that cut weekly close prep about 90% by joining data, retrying failed steps, and fixing errors. Ran regression tests and monitoring evals across 50+ prompt iterations, holding reconciliation accuracy at 99%+. Handled late or incomplete source data in prompts and API logic, built pipelines to match financial records, and maintained a live cash and runway dashboard. Also used Claude Code to build CRM, pipeline, and reporting dashboards and prepared investor presentations and memos for 20+ founder calls. ### Product Analyst, Entrepreneur Ventures (2026-01 – present) Los Angeles, CA · Building an AI diligence agent in Python with the Claude API that scores founder-interview transcripts on 12 weighted criteria, returning scores, explanations, and an overall grade that cites the transcript. The agent has reviewed 60+ deals, and qualified deals now advance about 25% more often. Set rubric weights from analyst benchmarks so the investment committee can review nearly twice as many deals, and connected the scores to the deal pipeline so analysts verify each one. Also manage investor relations for a live Series A raise, drafting updates and meeting materials, with $500K+ committed so far. ### Data Product Consultant, TechTorch (2025-05 – 2025-10) Remote · Found about $1.2M in overlap in a clinical-trial integration using a Python K-means pipeline on 8,000+ data points, for a deal backed by private equity. Built the client CFO a 12-KPI dashboard in Snowflake, Excel, and Power BI, with Python scripts handling the data cleaning. ### Enterprise Technology Consulting Intern, West Monroe (2024-05 – 2024-08) Chicago, Illinois, United States · Built an M&A diligence dashboard that shows all 40+ targets on one screen, cutting partner review time about 75%. Managed go-live for a 196-workstation IT migration under an M&A deadline and automated migration checklists for the client's operations staff. ### Software Engineering Intern, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2023-06 – 2023-08) Wilmington, Delaware, United States · Migrated 125 interconnected microservices to a distributed AWS architecture, reducing infrastructure spend about $200K per year for Chase Home Lending. Developed a Python search tool covering 13 mortgage-data categories across 12 systems, adopted by 30+ underwriters. ### Solutions Engineer Intern, Intel Corporation (2022-05 – 2022-08) Austin, TX · Reduced semiconductor chip testing time 50% by standardizing automated test scripts across a system-on-chip program. Automated analysis of 450 chip test results, with scripts adopted across engineering teams. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Applied Economics & Econometrics, University of Southern California (2025-08 – 2026-12) GPA 3.5 ### Minor, International Business, Texas McCombs School of Business (2024-01 – 2025-05) ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Economics, The University of Texas at Austin (2020-08 – 2025-05) International Business Minor; Applied Statistical Modeling Certificate ### High School Diploma in STEM, Clements High School (2016-01 – 2020-01) ## Projects ### VoteBook • An App to worked towards making the voting process easier and more efficient for the average American voter ### Chevron Makeathon 2021 - Wearable distance sensor for auto-braking • Created a distance sensing autobraking system that indicates to the user how far away they are from the rolling object via LEDs. • Materials included an Arduino Nano, servo motor, ultra-sonic sensor, 3D printed rack and pinion system. • Won subcategory design award for “Best in Field Operator Safety”. ### Embedded Systems Game Design Project • Designed and implemented variation of “Snake” video game in C to run on TM4C123 microcontroller. • Demonstrated features and controls of system to both Professors and 200+ students in course. ### University Funds Platform Web app for comparing ETF portfolios built from university endowment allocations · Deployed a site with 25 years of allocation history from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Princeton, used to build ETF portfolios investors can buy and compare. Designed a six-table PostgreSQL schema linking the allocation rows to sources, tested by a validator and 30 regression tests. The site shows only reported figures. ### Campus Asset Health Explorer Tool that ranks campus equipment by failure risk and potential cost · Combines work-order, asset, and sensor data from campus buildings into one data model and ranks equipment by failure risk and potential cost. Built the data model and a validator before loading public building-energy data and generated data for 12 buildings and 60 assets over 24 months. Currently interviewing facilities teams at USC, UCLA, and Caltech about which maintenance costs matter most. ### Watchlist Drop Alerts (StockWatcher) Telegram bot that alerts on watchlist price drops during NYSE hours · Stock alert tool used daily that sends Telegram alerts on percentage and dollar watchlist price drops during NYSE hours. Implemented once, legs, and mute alert modes, plus gap-down warnings at open and failed-quote warnings. ## Skills Python (Programming Language), Linux, Verilog, Debugging, Research, Data Analysis, Nonprofit Organizations, Drone Building, Communication, Organization Skills, Debate, Drone Piloting, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Claude API, Claude Code, LLMs, Prompt engineering, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Azure, Docker, APIs, Git, Vercel, Claude Certified Architect (Anthropic), Claude API Certificate (Anthropic), Hugging Face AI Agents course ## Credentials - **Office of Research and Innovation: Early Career Catalyst Award** (issued 2025-12) - **IEEE UT Austin Student Branch Endowed Excellence Fund** — Cockrell School of Engineering (issued 2021-05) - **Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador** — Microsoft (issued 2021-01) - **Mayor's Recognition of Service** — City of Sugar Land (issued 2019-05) - **Eagle Scout** (issued 2019-03) - **Claude Certified Architect - Foundations** — Anthropic - **Claude Code in Action** — Anthropic (issued 2026-07) - **AI Fluency for students** — Anthropic (issued 2026-06) - **Claude code 101** — Anthropic (issued 2026-06) - **Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals** — Microsoft (issued 2023-07) - **AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty** — Amazon Web Services (AWS) - **AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner** — Amazon Web Services (AWS) ## AI Fluency - **Claude** — Driver for product design, and some agentic coding (https://claude.ai) - **Codex** — Driver for agentic coding (https://developers.openai.com) --- Source: https://saywise.com/member5595 (last modified 2026-10-21T04:02:23.048Z)