Pet project in review
Hisaab, a finances tracker
Jun 2026
A local app for two people that replaced a finance spreadsheet and answers one question: did we invest what the plan said this year?
Rishav Sharma
I like to teach. I like to build.
Teacher, Palantir & AIP Engineer, Data Scientist in review
I hate randomness. I teach people to build on Palantir Foundry, and I like turning intuition into something you can measure. Away from the screen it's guitar and John Mayer, chess, GeoGuessr, and the occasional attempt at stand-up.
Work
Projects & learning
2026
Work
Projects & learning
Pet project in review
rv-markdown-paper
Apr 2026
Markdown in, a print-quality PDF out, with a fixed editorial design.
2025
Work
Ontologize in review
Palantir instructor & engineer
Aug 2025 → now
I teach Palantir Foundry and build with it: ontologies, pipelines and the applications on top.
Palantir Foundry Ontology Pipeline Builder Workshop AIP Teaching
Projects & learning
Pet project in review
Matrix terminal
May 2025
A command line over falling-code rain, in plain JavaScript. It is still here, at /matrix.
2024
Work
Swiss Re GBS in review
Data Science Specialist II
Oct 2024 → Aug 2025
Promoted after two years. Data-science and language-model pipelines on Palantir Foundry for underwriting, operations and finance; underwriters about 30% more productive.
Palantir Foundry Python PySpark TypeScript SQL LLMs
Swiss Re in review
Nebula, a retrieval assistant
Feb 2024 → 2025
Answers from news, filings and financial documents; underwriter research went from days to minutes.
Projects & learning
2023
Work
Swiss Re in review
Loss-ratio hotspots
2023 → 2024
A model of portfolio losses, explained with SHAP, that pointed at the drivers; loss ratios fell 5%.
Projects & learning
2022
Work
Swiss Re GBS in review
Data Scientist I
Oct 2022 → Oct 2024
Joined Swiss Re's Global Business Solutions as a data scientist, building on Palantir Foundry.
Projects & learning
Pet project · Medium in review
A database of every song I have heard
Jan 2022
Years of listening history from Google Takeout, cleaned into a song database, with a word-cloud animation.
2021
Work
Projects & learning
Pet project · Packt in review
Customer prioritization
Oct 2021
Rank trial users by how likely they are to buy, so sales calls 83% fewer people.
Explainer Writing · Medium in review
Accuracy and precision, in an entrance exam
Jun 2021
Accuracy, precision and recall explained through how a multiple-choice exam is scored.
Writing · Medium in review
Python that writes my signature
May 2021
Points traced from a signature, joined with spline and Bézier interpolation, and animated stroke by stroke.
2020
Work
Code-Young in review
Python instructor
Nov 2020 → Dec 2021
About 750 hours of live Python lessons for 25 students in India, the US and the UAE.
Projects & learning
University of Delhi · Hindu College in review
Master of Operational Research
Aug 2020 → May 2022
The mathematics of deciding under constraints: optimisation, queues, simulation and forecasting.
Optimisation Simulation Queueing theory Forecasting
2017
Work
Projects & learning
Osmania University · Bhavans College in review
B.Sc. in mathematics, statistics and computer science
May 2017 → May 2020
Three subjects side by side, which is close to the recipe for data science.
Mathematics Statistics Computer science