Irfaan Sunthbocus

Key Skills

Software

Mercor

Labelbox

Top Subject Matter

Financial Reasoning, RHLF, LLM Evaluation & QA

Private Markets & Public Markets

Investment Strategy & Asset Management

Top Data Types

Text

Document

Top Task Types

RLHF

Question Answering

Text Summarization

Evaluation/Rating

Freelancer Overview

Investment & AI Finance Consultant (RLHF/LLM Evaluation). Brings 12+ years of professional experience across legal operations, contract review, compliance, and structured analysis. Core strengths include Mercor, Internal, and Proprietary Tooling. Education includes Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (2016) and Bachelor of Science, University College London (2014). AI-training focus includes data types such as Text and labeling workflows including RLHF, Evaluation, and Rating.

Labeling Experience

Investment & AI Finance Consultant (RLHF/LLM Evaluation)

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As an independent Investment & AI Finance Consultant, I conducted RLHF and LLM evaluations specifically for Outlier and Mercor. My work focused on validating financial reasoning for investment underwriting and forecasting in institutional finance contexts. The process involved evaluating language model outputs for accuracy and relevance in financial analysis and scenario modeling. • Created and rated financial reasoning Q&A pairs for LLMs • Manually reviewed and annotated AI-generated investment recommendations • Evaluated LLMs for accuracy in complex multi-asset finance workflows • Used internal/proprietary and Mercor platforms for annotation and rating

As an independent Investment & AI Finance Consultant, I conducted RLHF and LLM evaluations specifically for Outlier and Mercor. My work focused on validating financial reasoning for investment underwriting and forecasting in institutional finance contexts. The process involved evaluating language model outputs for accuracy and relevance in financial analysis and scenario modeling. • Created and rated financial reasoning Q&A pairs for LLMs • Manually reviewed and annotated AI-generated investment recommendations • Evaluated LLMs for accuracy in complex multi-asset finance workflows • Used internal/proprietary and Mercor platforms for annotation and rating

2026 - Present

Consultant, LLM Evaluation & AI Research (BlackRock)

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As a Consultant at BlackRock, I was responsible for integrating LLM-driven financial reasoning into due diligence and manager research workflows. I created excel-based validation frameworks for evaluating the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated outputs in systematic investment decision-making. This included co-developing dashboards for AI training and transforming qualitative research into labeled, machine-readable taxonomies. • Evaluated, rated, and summarized LLM-generated financial research outputs • Created structured taxonomies for alternative manager benchmarking • Synthesized labeled outputs into actionable investment intelligence • Used internal/proprietary AI and market intelligence tools for annotation and validation

As a Consultant at BlackRock, I was responsible for integrating LLM-driven financial reasoning into due diligence and manager research workflows. I created excel-based validation frameworks for evaluating the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated outputs in systematic investment decision-making. This included co-developing dashboards for AI training and transforming qualitative research into labeled, machine-readable taxonomies. • Evaluated, rated, and summarized LLM-generated financial research outputs • Created structured taxonomies for alternative manager benchmarking • Synthesized labeled outputs into actionable investment intelligence • Used internal/proprietary AI and market intelligence tools for annotation and validation

2025 - 2025

Education

Work History