Amit Schechter
Senior Vice President AI UX, Gen AI, Custom Agents at Lazard Asset Management
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Schechter is an AI UX product inventor and seasoned software developer with 14 years crafting interactive data visualizations, developer tools, and production UIs from New York. He blends design sensibility with ML and LLM-driven engineering—leveraging RAG, fine-tuning, programmatic execution of generated code, MCP and agentic workflows—to build AI-powered apps that produce rich, interactive graphics. Previously he led visualization teams at Lazard and co-founded TWO-N, delivering award-winning, data-driven narrative tools for clients like Bloomberg and NYSE Euronext. His background spans real-time 3D broadcast graphics, portfolio construction platforms, and bespoke web apps, giving him a rare fluency across creative UX, data science, and engineering. Known for owning projects end-to-end, Amit often moves between prototyping, client strategy, and hands-on implementation, pairing an architect’s rigor with a maker’s curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSAS, Architecture, BSAS, Architecture at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (30)
visualization9
midjourney9
nodejs-client9
google-trends8
svg8
graphic8
vega8
staging7
vega-lite7
plot6
canvas6
charts6
pivot-tables6
react5
data-visualization5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
meetamit/observable-local
Aug 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
meetamit/ai-graph-team
Oct 2025 - Jan 2026
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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