Shanzay Ijaz KhanResume

Writing · AI, security, and data

Notes from
the build.

Field notes from internships at Hendrickson and Premier, and from founding Aegis, written as things happen, not after they are polished into a highlight reel.

Aug 14, 20266 min read

Field notes from building an AI program management agent

What actually breaks when you point an LLM agent at real project data at Hendrickson, and the guardrails that made it trustworthy enough to ship.

AI AgentsInternshipLangChain
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Jun 2, 20265 min read

What it takes to get a finance dashboard people actually use

Unifying financial and operational data at Premier taught me that the hard part of data engineering is rarely the pipeline. It is trust.

Data EngineeringInternshipPower BI
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Mar 5, 20264 min read

What winning CMU NexHacks taught me about shipping under pressure

Twenty-four hours, one working demo, and a lot of scope cutting. Notes on what separated the projects that placed from the ones that did not.

HackathonsAICareer
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Nov 10, 20257 min read

Why I co-founded Aegis: the mid-market security gap nobody is pricing for

Enterprise security teams can afford full-time analysts. Everyone below that line is left with scanners that generate noise instead of answers. That gap is the whole thesis.

CybersecurityAegisCo-Founder
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