Shashank is a Senior Back-end Engineer who has served numerous clients in diverse roles, from working on scalability problems in production engineering teams at Razorpay, UrbanClap, and HealthKart to developing MVP products for small businesses. He has a track record of mobilizing resources to start new ventures and drive ideas from inception to execution. Shashank is also an effective team leader who has managed engineers in building services and features from scratch.
Developed a Harmony Access Manager that mediates access requests to data resources. Applications or users request access to data resources, which can be S3 objects, Apache Kafka brokers, or many other things.
Implemented the Raft consensus algorithm to construct an in-memory permission storage service within a highly scalable distributed environment.
Enabled other services like Access Manager and Credential Manager were communicating with the raft service via GRPC.
Built the entire system from scratch and worked directly with the Chief Architect, Ted Dunning.
Set up metrics for monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana.
Worked on multiple LLM/AI projects. Used langchain, openai, LiteLLM, Claude etc
Project 1 - AxelRuns - Built an AI agent from scratch whose responsibility is do compliance for Global financial services companies. Given a person profile, it will fetch compliance data from different sources specific to a country and figure out if the person has any adverse media, sanctions, criminal charges etc
Project 2 - LoadLogic - An ai agent which will enrich the leads of transportation companies sent over emails with relevant data and push into their TMS.
Project 3 - MQL to SQL: Sales team has to spend a lot of time to talk to all the leads in MQL stage. AI talk to the leads over phone call or SMS or WhatsApp
Launched a distributed data stream service to deliver events to customer destinations on a large scale; provisioned an ETL pipeline for the ETL flow enabling users to create a destination with Snowflake, Kafka, and Pub/Sub.
Built a webhook service from scratch with 3,000 transactions per second (TPS).
Assigned to lead a team for a data streams infra project, following the company's internal Agile process and interacting with other teams.
Led a team of 4 engineers and built the major platform APIs and services from scratch on a scale for TiLa, an eCommerce marketplace in the Middle East.
Architected and worked extensively on an incentive engine that provides real-time discounts and offers using a self-build rule engine.
Designed and implemented the checkout flow from the cart to place the order.
Involved in all major product level design and managing team members.
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