Shashank Shekhar
AI Engineer at Optum India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Shekhar is an AI Engineer based in Bengaluru with 8 years of hands-on experience building and deploying large-scale ML systems across computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, and generative AI. He has deep startup and product instincts—founding a stealth AI startup focused on fine-tuning LLMs and diffusion/audio models and serving as a founding engineer for an Edge AI camera and streaming analytics product. His background includes productionizing models at Honeywell and Optum India and architecting scalable backends on GCP, MediaMTX streaming, and React/MySQL stacks. Comfortable across the stack, he combines research-driven model work with practical engineering to ship edge and cloud solutions. Notably, he blends autonomous vehicle and generative model experience, making him adept at multi-modal, real-time AI applications.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Lakshmi Narain College of Technology, Kalchuri Nagar, Raisen Road, Post Klua, Bhopal-462021
Github Skills (25)
http9
python8
homomorphic-encryption8
data-science7
pytorch7
intellisense7
machine-learning7
python-requests7
cryptography7
encryption7
pylint7
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
algorithms6
testing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ShaShekhar/Reinforcement-Learning
Dec 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
ShaShekhar/bitcoin-testnet
Mar 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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