Rachitt Shah

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States5 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven software development and consulting.
Strong background in quantitative finance and data engineering.
Proven track record in venture capital and investment analysis.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with strong expertise in AI and Venture Capital.

Contact

rachitt01@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Generative AiSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure As Code (iac)Quantitative FinanceQuantitative ResearchData EngineeringVenture Capital

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Asset ManagementC (Programming Language)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Competitive CodingComputer VisionCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDocument ProcessingFinanceFull-Stack DevelopmentGitGitHubGo (Programming Language)

About

The ideal engineer is a composite. He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer, but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems. Current: Applied AI consultant. Past Lives: SRE at Last9. Quant for an options fund. Venture Capital Research at Stanford GSB. Data Engineering at Venture Highway. Venture Capital Fellow at Blume Ventures. Software Consultant at Sequoia Capital India. I work mainly with backend, devops and NLP/LLM products. If you're building something new or want to chat, get in touch: rachitt01@gmail.com Please send a note if we haven't worked together before connecting.

Experience

5 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

9 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Transfrm.ai

Consulting Partner

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Pune, SF, BLR

Consulting Partner for startups and enterprises.
Our expertise spans AI-driven software development, RAG systems, data engineering, and AI reliability to drive business outcomes.
How we Work:
Secondment: Embed within teams to solve AI challenges hands-on.
Independent Consulting: Provide end-to-end AI solutions.
Past Clients (Non-Exhaustive):
Enterprises & Growth-Stage: Dell, Razorpay, Calsoft, Arize AI, Replit
Startups: Series A-C InsurTech, Data Warehousing, LegalTech, LLM Evaluation, User Research startups.
Example are Arcee AI, HoneyHive AI, Literal AI, Space and Time.
Venture Firms: Giant Ventures, Accel India, General Catalyst, gradCapital, EMVC, Speciale Invest, Sequoia Capital India

Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Full-Stack DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)

Last9 inc

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2023 – Jun 2023 · 5 mos · Hybrid

Infrastructure as code (IaC)Go (Programming Language)Site Reliability EngineeringSDK developmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)

Self-employed

Applied AI Consultant

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

I make AI reliable and do alot of evals.

Generative AIFull-Stack DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)Artificial Intelligence (AI)

High frequency trading fund

Quantitative Developer

Aug 2022 – Jan 2023 · 5 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Asset managed: Options.
Ideated and backtested strategies, and built internal backtesting tools, ensuring lowest latency possible.
Anchored by Extraamarks education founders.

MongoDBPostgreSQLPython (Programming Language)Quantitative InvestingQuantitative FinanceMarket Risk+2

General catalyst

Data Engineer

Aug 2022 – Nov 2022 · 3 mos · Remote

Drop a note at rachitt@venturehighway.vc to get in touch.

Venture CapitalArtificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)Computer VisionNatural Language Processing (NLP)Document Processing+1

Google season of docs

GSoD at The R Foundation for Statistical Computing

Apr 2022 – Aug 2022 · 4 mos

R (Programming Language)

Blume ventures

Venture Capital Fellow

Mar 2022 – Aug 2022 · 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Venture CapitalInvestor Relations

Stanford university graduate school of business

Research Assistant (PE/VC)

Nov 2021 – Feb 2022 · 3 mos

Venture Capital

Sequoia capital

Software Consultant

Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 · 5 mos · Remote

Venture Capital

Speciale invest

Investment Analyst Intern

Sep 2021 – Oct 2021 · 1 mo

Offtrack

Co-Founder

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos

https://offtrack.substack.com/
Check out Offtrack, a new way to learn.

Venture Capital

Cuemath

Product Manager

Jul 2021 – Sep 2021 · 2 mos

Cuemath is a leading K-12 startup focusing on helping children learn concepts digitally via assisted learning.
As a product management intern, I lead and shipped new markets entry, with a focus on financial products for international markets that made payments easier for parents.

Emvc

Investment Analyst Intern

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 · 3 mos

Emphasis Ventures (EMVC) is a global venture capital fund investing in early-stage fintech companies with breakthrough innovation and scale in emerging markets and that have relevance globally, having invested in startups like Slice and Khatabook.
As an investment analyst, my key areas of operations were:
Dealflow management and sourcing
Conduct market research
Maintain EMVC’s internal databases
Prepare financial models for a variety of applications (including KPI/metrics analysis and financial projections)
Support portfolio management activities (including review investor updates, prepare for board meetings, and share relevant industry developments)
Provide general support of ad hoc internal operations (including note taking, and communications)
Developement of investment strategies over crypto, lending and financing.

Google season of docs

Documentation lead and Technical Writer at STE||AR Group

May 2021 – Oct 2021 · 5 mos

The STE||AR has extensive documentation existing for its project HPX. I would be looking to change the documentation to make it more discoverable.
HPX is a C++ Standard Library for Concurrency and Parallelism. It implements all of the corresponding facilities as defined by the C++ Standard. Additionally, in HPX we implement functionalities proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process. We also extend the C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case. HPX is developed by the STE||AR group.
The goal of HPX is to create a high-quality, freely available, open-source implementation of a new programming model for conventional systems, such as classic Linux-based Beowulf clusters or multi-socket highly parallel SMP nodes. At the same time, we want to have a very modular and well-designed runtime system architecture that would allow us to port our implementation onto new computer system architectures. We want to use real-world applications to drive the development of the runtime system, coining out required functionalities and converging onto a stable API that will provide a smooth migration path for developers.

Venture Capital

Google summer of code

GSoC at OpenAstronomy

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos

Generating periodograms for astronomical data is the core task of Stingray. Because periodograms are often noisy, several methods to denoise periodograms exist in the literature, among them the multi-taper periodogram Stingray aims to provide a comprehensive library of reliable, well-tested implementations of common algorithms for time series analysis in Astronomy. DAVE is an elegant GUI to the library, developed during a previous GSoC.
Due to the fast-evolving Python and Javascript landscape, this GUI is not compatible with the current versions of the dependencies. Also, Stingray has now new features that were not implemented in the original GUI.
In this project, I would be refreshing the GUI dependencies, update the package building infrastructure, and add the new functionality introduced in recent versions of Stingray.

Venture Capital