Comp Sci · Finance · UT Dallas

Shriya Bansal

Building AI-driven FinTech products that make financial management smarter and more accessible.

Shriya Bansal

Perspective

Recently inspired by Morgan Housel’s article on long-term thinking, I built a portfolio analytics system benchmarking 20 years of S&P 500 weekly returns against user-selected tickers.

I've developed proficiency in Python, C++, Dart, HTML, and CSS through coursework and applied projects.

Outside of class, I enjoy tutoring K–12 students in Math and English; seeing their academic progress and test-taking confidence is highly rewarding.

On campus, I am involved in FinTech UTD, RIDE (research), EPICS, and Sigma Sigma Rho Sorority, Inc., focusing on technical collaboration and community involvement.

8
Collaborative and Technical Projects
4
Programming Languages
5+
years of tutoring experience
35%
Average academic improvement for my students

Technical Toolkit

Languages
Python C++ Dart HTML CSS
Frameworks & Libraries
Flutter LlamaIndex Pandas NumPy Matplotlib yfinance
AI / ML
RAG Pipelines OpenAI API OCR Tesseract PaddleOCR
Developer Tools & Databases
Git Figma Inngest Qdrant

Experience

Extern × Pfizer Feb – May 2026
AI Engineering Extern
  • Reduced pharmaceutical vendor file processing time by 32% by building an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline transforming unstructured files into structured, queryable datasets via OCR (Tesseract, PaddleOCR) and RAG (LlamaIndex).
  • Optimized retrieval configurations by benchmarking open-source LLMs (Mistral and Phi-2) across 5 chunk-size variants (256–2,048 tokens), reducing irrelevant outputs.
FinTech UTD Feb – May 2026
Developer
  • Co-developed PocketPact, a mobile fintech app for iOS and Android, designed for UTD students and pitched to Fidelity Investments.
  • Built a time-series risk profiling model classifying users into 3 risk profiles (conservative, moderate, volatile) based on spending patterns, financial goals, and income.
Study Sharp Tutoring Jan 2021 – Present
Co-Founder & Private Tutor
  • Improved exam results by 35% by communicating advanced Mathematics and English concepts to diverse learners.
  • Design coursework aligned with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and STAAR standards.

Projects + Demos

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May 2026
Portfolio Analytics Engine

20 years of S&P 500 weekly returns.
Sharpe ratio, rolling volatility, backtesting, and an analytical Matplotlib dashboard with automated correlation analysis.

PythonyfinancePandasNumPyMatplotlib
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Feb – May 2026
PocketPact - FinTech Mobile App

iOS and Android app for UTD students, pitched to Fidelity Investments. Risk profiling, leaderboards, and collaborative pacts for personal financial management.

FlutterDartFigmaPlaid API
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Jan 2026
RAG-Powered Query System

Local-first RAG app for user PDFs, no cloud exposure. Tuned top-k search and 1,000-token chunks with 3,072-dimensional vector embeddings for finance and healthcare use cases.

LlamaIndexQdrantRAGOpenAI API
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Sep – Dec 2025
LLM-Assisted GPU Kernel Generation

UTD RIDE Program research. Evaluated 3 frameworks (ReGraphT, CUDAForge, TritonGym) and designed pseudocode for a closed-loop architecture with hardware verification and reward-driven iteration.

LLMsGPU KernelsResearch

Academic Foundation

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The University of Texas at Dallas
B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Finance · Richardson, TX
2025 - Present
Coursework: Advanced Programming (C++ & Java), Computer Architecture, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics, Probability & Statistics, Financial Modeling, Managerial Decision Making.

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Allen High School
High School Diploma · STEM Endorsement · Allen, TX
2021 - 2025
Involvement: Computer Science (I, II, III), STEAM Ambassador, National Honor Society, Gifted and Talented Program.

Let's Connect

Open to collaborations and meaningful conversations.

Current
Focus Areas

Building or improving technology in FinTech and AI.

Software Engineering
FinTech Development
AI/ML Engineering