# Ishan Nagpal

> Engineering at Mercor

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ishannagpal

I’m a highly motivated and creative engineer with an insatiable passion for AI, software, design, and music.

I build software products, platforms, and tools from scratch, for work and for fun (mostly for fun, lol).

See you in the wild:
Twitter: @ishanxnagpal
GitHub: @suitedaces

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Mercor
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Building RL environment products and infrastructure for top AI labs to improve model capabilities

### Founding Engineer + Head of Growth @ Fintool.com
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA
Full Stack + AI + Data engg + Design  + Head of Growth.

### Founder / Creator @ DevApe
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
DevApe is an AI agent that:

- knows your codebase
- has access to documentation on the web
- labels & triages issues
- does automated code reviews for security & quality

Installed on 4000+ GitHub repositories til’ date!

Designed, developed, marketed, talked to users, and supported them by myself.

### Senior Software Engineer @ J.P. Morgan
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
Built JPMC’s external vendor data platform on AWS, from scratch.

### Fellow @ ODF
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Founder Fellowship. Over $800k+ in perks and credits.

### Contributor @ Towards Data Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Markets Data Analyst @ R.J. O'Brien
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chicago, Illinois
“The most important trade of the day is the lunch trade”

### Advisory Intern @ EY
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ishan-nagpal
- Portfolio: https://ishannagpal.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29