Bharath Shankar

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 9 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable Voice AI solutions.
Strong leadership in engineering and product development.
Proficient in advanced AI technologies and networking.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer specializing in AI and Networking technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentKubernetesNetworkingProject ManagementDevice Drivers

Other Skills

System ArchitectureConversational aiMongoDBVoice over IP (VoIP)Large Language Models (LLM)gRPCMachine LearningTechnological InnovationRabbitMQPythonSQLProduct LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)Speech RecognitionShell Scripting

About

Building Speech and Generative AI at scale

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Gnani.ai

2 roles

Co-Founder, Chief Product and Engineering Officer

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

VP of Engineering

Mar 2019 – May 2025 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Building exciting solutions around speech recognition, natural language processing and speech analytics.

Engineering LeadershipSystem ArchitectureConversational aiMongoDBKubernetesProduct Development+23

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8 roles

Advisory Software Engineer

Sep 2018 – Mar 2019 · 6 mos

Currently exploring Kubernetes project on AIX where users can deploy Kubernetes with IBM AIX container technology. In parallel working on POCs like GPU as a Service and Inter VM network performance measurements/Improvements.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr

Project Manager for AIX
Key contributions
> Conducted Line Item reviews with stakeholders from Development, Functional Testing, Integrated System Test team, Performance and Documentation teams.
> Track product registrations and Fileset Image Survey submissions on AIX.
> Held regular meetings/calls with stakeholders from distribution, packaging and offering teams.
> Track and follow up on critical defects across components in AIX.

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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Team lead for Network Device drivers.
> Worked on technologies like Infiniband and RDMA.
> Worked on refactored device drivers for physical adapters from Mellanox and Emulex.
> Worked on SR-IOV Virtual Nic (vNIC)
> Worked on Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) in AIX.

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Worked on various Network Virtualization technologies involving
> Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA)
> Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA)
> Virtual Ethernet
> SR-IOV
Worked on Development and Support of device drivers for 1G, 10G and 40G adapters from vendors like Intel, Broadcom, Mellanox and Emulex.

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Software Engineer II

Aug 2012 – Jul 2013 · 11 mos

Started working on Network Device drivers for Power Systems in AIX. Worked on Etherchannel ieee802.3ad (LACP), Network Virtualization.

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Software Engineer II

Dec 2010 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos

Component lead for IBM PowerHA Dev and support team.

Software Engineer

Aug 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Worked on IBM's high availability solution (PowerHA) for Power servers running AIX operating system.
Worked on various modules and technologies like Cluster manager, Reliable Scalable Cluster Topology (RSCT), Peer to Peer Remote Copy (PPRC)..etc.