Shashank Agarwal

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 10 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Founded multiple successful AI startups.
  • Generated $32 million in revenue for Amazon Prime Video.
  • Expert in AI optimization and infrastructure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI infrastructure expert with a strong focus on optimization and scalability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)ApisStartupsSoftware DevelopmentTeam ManagementBlockchainAmazon Web Services (aws)Recommender SystemsTeam Leadership

Other Skills

AJAXASP.NETAWS AppsyncAWS CloudFormationAWS LambdaAndroid DevelopmentApacheB2B SoftwareCCSSCloud ApplicationsCloud ComputingData MiningDockerE-commerce

About

I started building when I was 15. Wrote hacking tutorials on HackItEasy while still in school — can't share what I hacked, but if you dig deep enough, you might find it. By 17, I was running Dailyjag — a media company with 10 writers and 17,000 email subscribers. I've been blogging for 18+ years across HackItEasy, Dailyjag, and TheGeekLabs (10K+ subscribers). Writing is how I learn. In college, I built Hopdata — an automated machine learning platform that hit 20,000 API calls per day and served startups globally. I was still finishing my Master's at Ohio State. Also used NLP to predict stock prices from social media sentiment back in 2013, before it was cool. While at OSU, I entered 4 hackathons and won all 4 — national wins at Georgia Tech, Ohio State, UIUC, and Purdue. That was a good year. After graduation, I joined AWS and ended up on the original SageMaker launch team. I helped design and ship Hyperparameter Optimization, reviewed APIs for AWS public services, and maintained the AWS SDK for PHP. At Amazon Prime Video in London, I was part of the team that built personalized offer selection systems using ML — that work generated $32 million in additional revenue. Along the way: CTO at Activeloop (ML dataset infrastructure), ML Tech Lead at Levity, built AI recommendation engines, touched Web3 search backends. Forbes Tech Council member for 3+ years. Quoted in Economic Times on AI agent security. I also built PipFeed — an AI-powered personalized news reading app that pivoted into a scraping API. It now runs as a fully passive SaaS, doing $1.2K MRR. And that's what inspired me to build API.market Now I'm building two companies: → Noveum AI — AI agents that monitor, evaluate, debug, and auto-fix other AI agents. 68 evaluation scorers. Real-time production fixes. If your AI breaks at 3 AM, we catch it before your users do. → API.Market — A global marketplace for AI APIs. 10K+ users, 6M+ API calls per month, 300+ MCP servers, $250K raised from US angels. 18 years of building products, writing code, breaking things, and shipping anyway. Always happy to connect with founders building in AI, engineers thinking about production ML, or anyone who started way too young and never stopped.

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Noveum ai

Founder/CEO

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Helping companies optimize their AI models for cost, accuracy, or speed.
  • Created a proprietary auto-optimization engine for generative AI models.
KubernetesArtificial Intelligence (AI)APIsNext.jsReact.jsElasticsearch+2

Antler

Entrepreneur in Residence

Aug 2024Dec 2024 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Building MagicAPI: AI model & API management platform.
  • Launched: https://api.market (Built using MagicAPI)
StartupsEnterprise SoftwareSalesEntrepreneurshipSoftware InfrastructureSoftware Development+1

Api.market

Founder/CEO

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Global marketplace for AI models and APIs used by over 2000 registered developers.
  • Handling over 6M API calls per month.
  • Growing the business organically 30% MoM.

Amazon

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2022Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Design & Implemented solutions using ML/AI to optimize revenue for Amazon Prime Video.
  • Helped generate over $32 Million in additional revenue for Amazon Prime Video
  • Lead projects that personalized offer selection for Customers at scale.
Team ManagementRecommender SystemsE-commerceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software InfrastructureSoftware Design

Sepana

Senior Software Engineering Consultant

Jul 2022Nov 2022 · 4 mos · Remote

  • Cloud Infrastructure + Devops
  • Helped build a decentralized search backend for saving data on the blockchain and running queries against it
  • Help design and implement a full-featured search infrastructure for web3
  • Build and maintain devops that can scale with high throughput queries
  • Integration of web3 data sources into search algorithms
  • Work with design and product to build customer-facing software
BlockchainPython (Programming Language)Elasticsearch

Twigo

Senior Software Engineering Consultant

Jun 2022Sep 2022 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Helped build AI recommendation engine for recommending Live Streams
  • Built Serverless + GraphQL backend on AWS with Appsync, Cloudformation, Dynamodb, Redis Cache etc.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)GraphQLRedisAWS LambdaPython (Programming Language)AWS Appsync+2

Levity

ML Tech Lead

Jan 2022May 2022 · 4 mos

  • Managing and mentoring ML engineers
  • Hiring, onboarding, and training new engineers
  • Setting the technical direction for our ML architecture
  • Leading the development of a robust, scalable, and secure ML infrastructure that powers the core product
  • Collaborate with founders on strategic product and engineering decisions
  • Collaborate on improving the team's workflows and productivity
Team LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesTeam ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Forbes technology council

Member

Sep 2021Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Activeloop

2 roles

Chief Technology Officer

Mar 2021Jun 2021 · 3 mos

  • Oversee engineering effort and development team including open source, backend, frontend, and other projects.
  • Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
  • Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
  • Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources in cooperation with Sales and Marketing
  • Hire engineers and coordinate their training
  • Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools

Head Of Engineering

Feb 2021Mar 2021 · 1 mo

  • Oversee engineering effort and development team including open source, backend, frontend, and other projects.
  • Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
  • Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
  • Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources in cooperation with Sales and Marketing
  • Hire engineers and coordinate their training
  • Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools

Pipfeed.com

Founder

Feb 2020Jan 2021 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • PipFeed is an A.I. based super personalized articles reading app. PipFeed learns from user interactions and is able to figure out which articles the user will like to read and especially which articles the user doesn't want to see.

Amazon

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Design and develop various software for India Machine Learning Team Platform
  • Design and implemted large scale model performance monitoring platform for Internal Amazon

Amazon web services

Software Developer

Dec 2016Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Part of original AWS Sagemaker launch team.
  • Helped design, implement and launch "Hyper Parameter Optimization" for AWS Sagemaker.
  • API reviewer for various AWS public services
  • Develop and maintain AWS SDK for PHP for all AWS services (https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php)

Expedia, inc.

Software Developer

Jul 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bellevue

  • Containerize modules as microservices using Docker.
  • Design and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS ECS
  • Design, implement & manage mesosphere and deploy apps on it.
  • Contribute to projects and improve codebase in JAVA.

The ohio state university

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Promoted

Jan 2015May 2015 · 4 mos

  • Instructed the course: SP15 CSE 1222 - Programming C++ (9266)
  • Responsible for grading approximately 40 students’ assignments per semester.

Research Assistant

Jun 2014May 2015 · 11 mos

  • Carry out independent research on ranking and quality analysis of Open Access Journals/Articles
  • Publish findings in popular journals and create an end-to-end system for everyone to use

Hopdata

Founder & CEO

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Designed/Implemented an automated machine learning platform.
  • Worked during my last year in college and the company was in stealth for over a year.
  • Was serving over 20,000 API calls per day at peak.
  • Over 10 different startups/clients across world used us.
  • Designed a serverless, fault-tolerant and infinitely scalable system to train text classification algorithms.
  • Hopdata’s mission is to simplify the process of making machine learning models and to give your models stronger predictive power.
  • At HopData, our vision is that anyone can create powerful predictive models and they don’t need a team of PhD scientists to accomplish this. Born in 2014 and with team members in Seattle, Milwaukee and India we are experts in statistics, computer science, and machine learning.

Stockleap

Senior Developer

Sep 2013Dec 2013 · 3 mos · Columbus, Ohio Area

  • Develop a system to find co-relation between social media, blog articles and news posts with Stock prices of various companies.
  • Developed the aggregate and NLP algorithms to scan and rate each article. Also developed system to give a score to each company based on metrics such as buzz score, NLP score, trade fluctuations etc.

Transformative learning solutions

Tech Lead

Oct 2012Jul 2013 · 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Maintained Linux Stack (Ubuntu) with apache2, mysql, memcache, CDN and security.
  • Developed CMS using Magento,Wordpress for ecommerce, order processing & email marketing systems with end-to-end integration.
  • Designed systems for user analysis, replication on cloud, analyzing error logs and payment gateways.
  • Hired developers for the company for technical positions and working in my team.

Adroit business solutions, inc.

Intern as Android developer

Jun 2011Jul 2011 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Worked as an intern on the Ganeshane Android app.
  • Helped in upgrading the application to the next version, mainly involved with programming in J2ME.
  • Worked in a team of around 10 developers. Used svn and mercury for project management.

Dailyjag

Founder

Feb 2008Jan 2020 · 11 yrs 11 mos · Delhi, India

  • Manage a team of 10+ writers
  • Reach over 17000+ email subscribers
  • Paid advertising agreements with multiple top brands

Education

The Ohio State University

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (GGSIPU) New Delhi

Btech — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Aligarh Muslim University

Diploma in Engg. — Electronics

Jan 2006Jan 2009

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