Shashank Agarwal

Software Developer

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About

Highly accomplished Software Developer with a strong track record in building and scaling innovative products for diverse companies, including successful startups. Proven expertise in leading technical initiatives, securing seed funding as a Founding Engineer, and scaling backend systems to support tens of thousands of monthly active users. Specializes in advanced AI/Generative AI development, microservices architecture, and full-stack solutions that drive significant business outcomes and efficiency.

Work Experience

Founding Engineer / Senior Software Developer

Agentsy.ai

Jan 2024 - Apr 2025

As Founding Engineer at Agentsy.ai, led critical product development and architectural initiatives, directly contributing to securing seed funding and acceptance into a top AI accelerator.

  • Secured Agentsy.ai's acceptance into Buildclub.ai, Australia's largest AI accelerator, validating product innovation and market potential.
  • Played a pivotal role as Founding Engineer in securing seed funding for Agentsy.ai, accelerating product development and market entry.
  • Architected and implemented a robust microservices-based backend, enhancing scalability and modularity for the core AI model.
  • Reduced AI model hallucinations by 50% through advanced prompt engineering, significantly improving output accuracy and reliability.
  • Engineered Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for vector databases, optimizing data retrieval and enhancing AI agent performance.

Full Stack Developer / Freelancer

Code Rustlers

Jul 2020 - Dec 2023

As a Full Stack Developer at Code Rustlers, developed and scaled diverse SaaS products, including generative AI solutions and high-traffic mobile applications, for a broad client base.

  • Scaled a mobile application to achieve hundreds of thousands of monthly active users, thousands of daily active users, and tens of thousands of weekly downloads.
  • Developed Puppeteer.js-based browser automations, resulting in a 90% reduction in client data acquisition costs.
  • Engineered AI-based voice agents with a voice orchestration layer, reducing latency by 300ms and improving user interaction handling.
  • Built and managed backend systems for multiple SaaS products, including architecting an AI SDR solution that automates sales development roles.
  • Created generative AI-based SaaS products in Python and JavaScript/Node.js, leveraging RAG and vector databases for solutions like PDF-based chat.

Education

Information Technology

Vellore Institute of Technology

Aug 2016 - May 2020

Skills

AI & Machine Learning

  • Generative AI Development
  • Langchain
  • RAG Pipelines
  • Vector Databases
  • LLM based function calling
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI Agents
  • Stable Diffusion
  • Midjourney
  • DALL-E 2

Software Architecture & Development

  • Full Stack Development
  • Backend Development
  • Microservices Architecture
  • SaaS Product Development
  • Mobile Application Development
  • MVP Development
  • Browser Automations (Puppeteer.js)
  • Chrome Extensions

Programming Languages & Frameworks

  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Django
  • React.js
  • JavaScript