Sahil Chugh

I’m a Financial Crime and data analytics leader with 15+ years building data platforms, AI/ML models and monitoring solutions in global banking. I’ve spent the last several years at HSBC in Kraków, progressing from Sr. AVP to Lead VP. I lead a 60+ person organisation across data science, engineering and model build, and I own delivery from discovery through production support and continuous improvement.

Career highlights

• Led engineering delivery of a group-wide AI-enabled Financial Crime detection platform (Google AML AI) across 40+ markets.

• Cut false positive alerts by 60% through model redesign, segmentation and threshold calibration.

• Scaled delivery from about 4 to 9-10 markets per quarter (2.5x) with prioritisation frameworks, standard playbooks and a consistent delivery rhythm.

• Established the compliance data lake as a trusted source, with end-to-end lineage, reconciliation, data quality gating and drift/anomaly monitoring.

• Presented and defended model design, controls and performance to regulators (including high-scrutiny US reviews), Internal Audit and independent model reviewers, and built the evidence packs behind them.

Earlier career: Goldman Sachs (data and controls for MiFID II and Margin Rules, about $3.4M in efficiency and risk reduction), Moody’s Analytics (fraud analytics model worth about $5M annually), Microsoft and Digitas Health (campaign and web analytics).

Skills: GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Kubeflow), advanced SQL, Python, SAS, data quality frameworks, model monitoring, GitFlow/CI-CD release controls, Agile/Scrum, Looker and Qlik.

Education: Master’s in Advanced Analytics & Big Data (SGH, Warsaw - 2019), Bachelors of Commerce (KUK, India, 2011), Actuarial Science (CT1, CT3, CT6, IFoA, UK), ICA Certificate in Compliance (2025).

Professional Interests: Making AI trustworthy and explainable in regulated environments. I’m currently deepening my hands-on work in Agentic, RAG, LLMs. Already delivering at scale ML algorithms, graph analytics, SHAP explainability and BigQuery/GCP solutions for financial crime. I also enjoy mentoring and growing data teams.

Looking for: Senior Data Analytics & Risk, Data Governance or AI/ML Model and Data Platform leadership roles. Based in Kraków, open to remote (EU) or hybrid (Poland). Languages: English (fluent), Hindi (native), Punjabi (fluent), Polish (B1).