Lukas Pollard

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Lukas Pollard

Management Consultant · Lead AI Engineer

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Amsterdam · Dutch & American

Management Consultant · Lead AI Engineer

Quant by training.
Builder by nature.

I take the rigour of econometrics and quantitative finance and turn it into AI products that people in risk, compliance and finance actually use: from the first client conversation to architecture, cloud deployment, training and rollout.

Today I lead AI engineering at Assets Only, a consultancy for risk, compliance and ESG in the Netherlands. Before that I modelled interest rates on GPUs for insurers and pension funds.

4AI products designed and built in 2026
26training films across six courses
2019working in finance and risk since
18years of violin

Quant

AI Engineering

Product

Rigour into results.

What I bring

Four disciplines, one person

Most people are a quant, an engineer, a consultant or a product lead. The interesting work happens where those meet. Open one to see what's inside.

01

Applied AI engineering

LLMs in production, with people in control.

  • AI drafting inside case workflows, strictly separated from risk decisions and approvals
  • EU-hosted Azure OpenAI through managed identities: no keys in code, data stays in the EU
  • Human-in-the-loop review, deterministic fallbacks and audit trails
  • Multi-model evaluation and agent workflows for building, reviewing and testing software
02

Quantitative finance

Econometrics, stochastic models, scenario engines.

  • MSc Financial Econometrics (University of Amsterdam)
  • Stochastic-volatility interest-rate model with displaced diffusion in CUDA C and Python
  • Risk-neutral economic scenario generation, ALM and ORSA studies
  • Climate stress testing, carbon attribution and factor pricing for ESG portfolios
03

Risk, compliance & financial crime

Knowing the rules well enough to build for them.

  • Customer due diligence and KYC workflows, identity verification, PEP and sanctions screening
  • Enterprise risk management aligned with COSO and ISO 31000
  • Frameworks for ISO 27001, DORA and NIS2
  • AI governance: GDPR processing registers, DPIAs, EU AI Act readiness
04

Product & leadership

From a client's problem to a product they adopt.

  • Leading a cross-functional development team and coordinating delivery
  • Turning specialist and client input into requirements, guided demos and releases
  • Training and onboarding that gets non-technical colleagues using AI
  • Driving AI adoption across a consultancy of more than fifty consultants

Selected work

Things I've built

Products, models and systems from the last few years. Most were built at Assets Only together with colleagues and clients.

09projects

  1. ClientInsight
  2. ZorgLens
  3. RiskLytix
  4. GreenWatch
  5. AI rollout & governance
  6. Academy & films
  7. Rates on the GPU
  8. ESG quant suite
  9. Agent-native workflow

01 / 09 · Assets Only

ClientInsight

A workbench for financial crime teams

Customer due diligence from onboarding to decision: document handling, configurable risk assessment, identity verification, PEP and sanctions screening, four-eyes review and a full audit trail. AI drafts English and Dutch case text from dossier facts. The decisions stay with the analyst.

  • React & TypeScript
  • Node
  • PostgreSQL
  • Azure
  • Azure OpenAI
clientinsight.nl ↗

02 / 09 · Assets Only

ZorgLens

Healthcare integrity for regions and municipalities

One workspace that brings together open sources (annual accounts, supervisory reports), risk indicators and a direct channel to care providers. I led the development team and the move to production on Azure, with single sign-on, enforced two-factor authentication and EU-hosted AI.

  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Celery
  • Entra ID
  • Azure
zorglens.nl ↗

03 / 09 · Assets Only

RiskLytix

Enterprise risk management, built from scratch

A risk and control platform aligned with COSO and ISO 31000: risk and process taxonomies, risk-control tables with gross and net scoring, control testing, remediation tracking and four-eyes approval. Multi-tenant with row-level security and MFA, now growing modules for ISO 27001, DORA and NIS2.

  • React
  • PostgreSQL row-level security
  • D3
  • Azure Container Apps

04 / 09 · Assets Only

GreenWatch

Greenwashing risk, scanned

Scans company websites against the new EU rules on green claims, flags the claims most likely to cause trouble and explains why. Clients get an action dashboard and monthly monitoring. Several AI models check each other's findings before a person signs off.

  • Python
  • Multi-model LLM review
  • Web crawling
  • SQLite

05 / 09 · Assets Only

AI rollout & governance

Getting a whole consultancy to use AI, safely

Tool selection, role-by-role efficiency analyses and a business case for the partners. A three-tier AI usage framework, a processing register that includes every AI tool, vendor agreements and DPIA planning. Plus guides and training so non-technical colleagues actually pick it up, and workshops on AI for one of Europe's largest pension investors.

  • AI strategy
  • GDPR
  • EU AI Act
  • Training

06 / 09 · Assets Only

Academy & films

26 training films, six courses, quizzes

An in-app academy that trains colleagues to present and run the products, with a quiz per course and a team dashboard. For ZorgLens I made explainer films and a LinkedIn teaser series, scored with original music from a small engine I wrote that plays sampled instruments.

  • Video production
  • Text-to-speech
  • Generative music
  • Learning design

07 / 09 · MavenBlue

Rates on the GPU

Stochastic interest-rate modelling in CUDA

Implemented a stochastic-volatility interest-rate model with displaced diffusion in GPU-accelerated C (CUDA) and Python, and reconciled it against the reference implementation. Built a risk-neutral economic scenario generator, wrote the mathematical documentation and supported insurers and pension funds on ALM and ORSA studies.

  • CUDA C
  • Python
  • Monte Carlo
  • Stochastic calculus
  • ALM

08 / 09 · Assets Only

ESG quant suite

Six analyses for sustainable investors

SFDR adverse-impact modelling with Monte Carlo classification, an NGFS climate stress engine with carbon-price paths and NAV fan charts, carbon-adjusted valuation and attribution, ESG rating reconciliation with PCA, and biodiversity factor pricing with Fama-MacBeth regressions. Built on stylised data calibrated to public benchmarks.

  • Python
  • Panel econometrics
  • Climate scenarios
  • PCA

09 / 09 · Own work

Agent-native workflow

I design the system, agents do the typing, I review

An always-on server where several AI coding agents build, review and test in parallel, and a brief is waiting every morning. One of my own projects went through eight rounds of a multi-agent bug hunt: 190 bugs found and fixed, and the test suite grew from 117 to over 700 tests.

  • Claude
  • GPT
  • Multi-agent review
  • Playwright
  • Linux

Path

From models to products

  1. 2019

    Insurance Consultant (working student)

    Willis Towers Watson

  2. 2021

    BSc Econometrics & Operational Research

    University of Amsterdam · then VC Analyst, portfolio management at Cydonia Fund

  3. 2022

    Quantitative Trading Analyst (part-time)

    QuantFi, during my master's

  4. 2024

    MSc Financial Econometrics

    University of Amsterdam · thesis on cointegrated cryptocurrency prices and statistical arbitrage

  5. 2024

    Quantitative Software Consultant

    MavenBlue · interest-rate models, scenario generators, ALM and ORSA

  6. 2025

    Consultant, then Lead AI Engineer and Management Consultant

    Assets Only · Lead AI Engineer since April 2026, Management Consultant since June 2026

Off the clock

  • Violin18 years, and leader of the second violins in a youth orchestra
  • Hybrid trainingStrength and endurance, and a fencer once
  • Frontier AI researchRead every week, tried out the same day
  • MarketsStill the puzzle I like most

On the side I publish small apps and games as LukasOnAir →