Shashank Jain

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Led teams to deliver high-impact technical projects.
Expertise in AI and scalable system design.
Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Cloud Computing expert with strong technical leadership skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (ai)Software DevelopmentEngineeringCloud Applications

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBasic HTMLCC++Coding in javaCrowdsourcingData AnalysisData StructuresData VisualizationDebateGraphics designing in PhotoshopHTMLHadoopHiveJava

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* Leading tech teams to deliver complex technical projects in a fast paced enviroment * Full-stack knowledge; expertise on most major programming languages (C++, Java, JS); designing scalable and reliable systems * xTeam collaboration, xFn stakeholder management, external partnerships, client relations * Successfully delivered multiple high-impact business-critical technical projects

Experience

Google

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Sr. Technical Lead - GPay India Financial Services
Leading and mentoring a team of 6+ engineers
Credit in GPay: Building an AI-powered multi-lender patform to offer Personal loans to GPay users via deep integration with NBFCs, banks and other financial institutions.
Finserv platform: Build, manage and grow E2E GPay India Financial services platform stack, supporting products like Personal Loans, Credit Cards, Gold Loans, CIBIL score, etc.
Technical Lead - Google Assistant (now Gemini)
Led a team of 5+ engineers
Built an Assistive layer within Chrome to make web tasks easier for India users; successfully delivering features like guided vaccine booking on CoWIN. My work involved technical explorations and development within Chrome, scoping work for the entire team, mentoring other junior members of the team, and xFn alignments.
Google Assistant Growth and Engagement in emerging markets.

Team LeadershipSoftware InfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentScalabilityStrategic PartnershipsSystems Design+4

Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Technical Lead - Google Assistant (now Gemini)
Led an aspirational project (4 member team) to bring Google Assistant voice capabilities on 3P mobile websites, integrating features like voice search, contextual suggestions and reading aloud. Led the Eng efforts since the incubation of the project, collaborated with xFn teams (GTech, Ecosystem, Global Partnerships, Legal and PWG), delivered a successful pilot with a leading media house in India.

Software InfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine Learning

Software Engineer

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Designed, developed and launched Interpreter mode on Google Mobile Assistant; providing a vivid experience of Google Translate in Google Mobile Assistant.

Software DevelopmentEngineeringSoftware InfrastructureC++JavaData Analysis+1

Rubrik, inc.

Software Engineer

Oct 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

AWS Native Backup: Designed and Implemented feature to provide SLA based backup, snapshot indexing and disaster recovery solutions for EC2 Instances running in AWS; achieving scalability and fault tolerance for use by large enterprises.
In process of filing two U.S. patents.

Software DevelopmentCloud Applications

Tower research capital

High Frequency Quantitative Analyst

Jul 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Devised and Implemented High-Frequency trading algorithms for of pair-
trading strategies; successfully and profitably running live in markets (C++)
Developed tools to facilitate trade execution and analyze historical market data(C++, Python).

Microsoft research

Research Intern

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Project Title: Optimizing Recurrent Distributed Queries
Supervisor: Dr. Kaushik Rajan, PLATO group, MSR India
Description: Developed a History service tool for Apache Hive that could capture repetitions (complete or partial) across Map-Reduce jobs, which in turn cab be used to optimize the query execution through better resource allocation. Validated the tool on a real set of queries and 28.71% of Map-Reduce jobs were found repeated.

Association for computing machinery, iitd student chapter

Vice Chairman

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos · IIT Delhi

Lead a team of 15 students of IIT Delhi. Secured a sponsorship of 1.7 Lakhs. Revamped Asian Programming Contest expanding its outreach to 6 countries. Organised events like Yahoo! HackU, ACM India Annual Event, CS Events during Tryst'14.

Advanced digital sciences center (adsc)

Junior Research Assistant

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Singapore

Project Title: Elastic Map Reduce with Spot Instances
Supervisor: Dr. Yin Yang (David)
Description: Set up Hadoop Development cluster. Formulated various techniques to improve the Hadoop Framework. Modified the code of Hadoop and suggested further changes to overcome the problem of skew.