
Shen Pandi
Verified Expert in Engineering
AI and Data Strategist and Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since January 22, 2026
Shen is a seasoned AI and data strategist and builder who has consulted C-suite and led technical teams on the successful implementation and completion of engagements at Ex-Mckinsey, Deloitte, and EY. An AI expert, he has conceptualized and led the development of several GenAI projects, including Towards AGI, DataManagement.AI, AgentsX.AI, and TowardsMCP. Shen will be a great addition to any team.
Portfolio
Experience
- Analytics - 20 years
- Data Management - 20 years
- Databases - 20 years
- Data - 20 years
- Consulting - 14 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 10 years
- Architecture - 10 years
- Strategy - 10 years
Preferred Environment
Cursor AI, Vercel, Google Antigravity, Slack, Microsoft Teams
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is DataMigration.AI, achieving the top rank on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok within two weeks, surpassing Databricks, Snowflake, and others.
Work Experience
Director
Self-employed
- Spearheaded the development of an AI-native underwriting workbench for a reinsurance company that increased productivity by 60% and saved £3 million per year.
- Created a data strategy and architecture for the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) to create an industry-wide data-as-a-service (DaaS) platform to serve 250 members in the motor and asset finance industry in the UK.
- Headed the treasury migration from the legacy system to the modern cloud for the Treasury System Replacement Program that transacts $1 trillion per year.
Digital Specialist
McKinsey & Company
- Advised the chief data officer, head of systems of a large Nordic bank in Sweden, by creating a data strategy, data governance, roadmap, and target operating model to comply with risk data aggregation and reporting to avoid a fine of €50 million.
- Built an advanced analytics capability in Azure using SQL Server, HDInsight, and Hive for a Dutch manufacturer to optimize the production of large machinery and increase efficiency by 30%.
- Create a data ingestion pipeline for a large German pharma company to support a data analytics strategy for drug discovery, enabling product owners, data engineers, and data scientists to reduce data discovery time by 40%.
Manager
Deloitte
- Architected a group customer data strategy (GCDS) to establish a global Customer 360 (C360), for all lines of business in HSBC for 50+ million customer data across 4 LoBs to address financial crime compliance, client due diligence, sanctions, etc.
- Led a business intelligence (BI) strategy for post-acquisition integration of Allianz Canadian business unit and an acquired insurance business to rationalize the BI reporting from 700 reports to 97 reports and save $2 million per year.
- Trained 25 professionals in data management and big data to upskill for client engagements over 60 months.
Manager
EY
- Created and implemented a data strategy for the LBG HR transformation program, aligned with UAT and business, which delivered a new performance structure for 20,000+ employees.
- Built a data model for HSBC risk-weighted assets (RWA) by using big data technologies on Hadoop stack, Platfora analytics, and Moody's analytics to optimize loss ratio by 25%.
- Achieved revenue generation of around £7 million for the practice in the first year.
Experience
GenAI Native Underwriting Workbench
DataManagement.AI | Agentic Data Management
https://www.datamanagement.ai/The platform is currently used for multiple use cases, including AI for BI and data migrations, and increases execution speed by 10 times with AI agents.
AgentsX | A Multi-model Agentic Platform
AgentsX enables the reimagination of any business process or the use of the current process, and agentifies the entire process into an agentic workflow. The platform is designed to be modular, context-aware, memory-rich, and grounded with guardrails that deliver more than 50% productivity gains. The PoC is deployed at a PE advisory firm for their commercial due diligence process.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
Imperial College London - London, UK
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Wales Swansea - Swansea, Wales, UK
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) - Belgaum, India
Skills
Tools
Microsoft Teams, Slack
Storage
Databases
Platforms
Vercel
Languages
Java, C
Frameworks
Next.js
Paradigms
Management
Other
Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud, Consulting, Analytics, Big Data, Architecture, Data Management, Cursor AI, Google Antigravity, Finance, Economics, Software, Web UX, Waterfall, Networking, Hardware, DOS, Custom Protocols, Underwriting
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