Shashank Agarwal — Founder
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI infrastructure expert with a strong focus on optimization and scalability.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 17 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (ai)
- Apis
- Startups
- Software Development
- Team Management
- Blockchain
- Amazon Web Services (aws)
- Recommender Systems
- Team Leadership
Career Highlights
- Founded multiple successful AI startups.
- Generated $32 million in revenue for Amazon Prime Video.
- Expert in AI optimization and infrastructure.
Work Experience
Noveum AI
Founder/CEO (1 yr)
Antler
Entrepreneur in Residence (4 mos)
API.Market
Founder/CEO (2 yrs 2 mos)
Amazon
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 7 mos)
Sepana
Senior Software Engineering Consultant (4 mos)
Twigo
Senior Software Engineering Consultant (3 mos)
Levity
ML Tech Lead (4 mos)
Forbes Technology Council
Member (3 yrs 3 mos)
Activeloop
Chief Technology Officer (3 mos)
Head Of Engineering (1 mo)
PipFeed.com
Founder (11 mos)
Amazon
Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)
Amazon Web Services
Software Developer (1 yr 7 mos)
Expedia, Inc.
Software Developer (1 yr 4 mos)
The Ohio State University
Graduate Teaching Assistant (4 mos)
Research Assistant (11 mos)
Hopdata
Founder & CEO (1 yr 11 mos)
Stockleap
Senior Developer (3 mos)
Transformative Learning Solutions
Tech Lead (9 mos)
Adroit Business Solutions, Inc.
Intern as Android developer (1 mo)
Dailyjag
Founder (11 yrs 11 mos)
Education
Master's degree at The Ohio State University
Btech at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (GGSIPU) New Delhi
Diploma in Engg. at Aligarh Muslim University