
Staff Developer, KOHO Financial
About the Speaker:
Ravika Nagpal is a Staff Developer at KOHO, building the platforms and guardrails that help teams deploy, monitor, and evaluate machine learning systems reliably in production. Her work sits at the intersection of MLOps, model monitoring, and AI governance, drawing on a background across machine learning, NLP, data engineering, and financial services technology. She’s driven by a simple idea: responsible innovation needs practical guardrails, not just good intentions.
Building ML models is not the hard part for most teams anymore. Getting them from a data scientist’s notebook to a governed, monitored, production system and keeping them there without a platform team standing between every developer and every deploy is. It gets harder inside a regulated fintech, where every model decision needs an audit trail, every alert needs a documented escalation path, and every “quick fix” has to survive a compliance review.
This talk walks through how our ML platform team at KOHO, a Canadian fintech, built a developer-first MLOps stack on AWS that treats governance as a byproduct of good engineering rather than a tax on top of it and how we’re now layering AI-assisted workflows (Claude Code skills, agentic guardrails) on top to remove the remaining manual toil from model onboarding, monitoring triage, and incident response.
We’ll cover the architecture, the AI-assisted developer tooling built on top of it, and what changed operationally as the company moved toward a full banking license, where “move fast” and “pass the audit” had to become the same sentence, not a trade-off.
Audience takeaway: a concrete pattern for developer productivity that survives regulatory scrutiny, plus where AI agents genuinely help.
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