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Shashank S.

AI & Machine Learning | Algorithms, Algorithm Development

AI-powered SaaS products, mobile apps, developer tools, and technical hiring platforms. Background in high-performance computing. Research work at IIIT Hyderabad on GPU-accelerated graph algorithms and parallel fluid simulation, including CUDA implementations of all-pairs shortest path that reached 40% speedup over baseline. Ex-HackerRank, seven years there ending as Technical Product Manager, where I created the Python language track and owned the customer-facing question libraries. Then Expertlead in Berlin as Engineering Team Lead, designing assessments and interview blueprints across 17 engineering verticals. B.Tech + MS by Research in CS from IIIT Hyderabad. Now running ShaStack, where we've shipped HausWise, a household management app live on the App Store and Google Play, along with CodingChai (technical hiring), Emploire (workforce management), SassyGit (multi-repo GitHub management), and Staffcoder, an assessment environment that runs on a real codebase with a terminal and live preview. Work I take on: mobile apps for iOS and Android, LLM apps and RAG pipelines, AI agents and workflow automation, full-stack web builds, and custom assessment or hiring platforms. Stack: Python, React, Node.js, Django, FastAPI, Flutter, React Native, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres. Send over what you're working on and you'll get a straight answer on whether it's a fit.

🇮🇳Noida, India$100/hr100% JSSSince Apr 2026

Earnings and projects

MRR
$9.1k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#1,608 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#128 / 45.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $55k

Total earnings
$72k

Billed in all: $72k

World#55,005 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#8,573 / 45.9k
Per project
$36k

$55k in the last 6 months

World#1,946 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#201 / 45.9k
Projects, last 6 months
1
100% fixed0% hourly
World#128,095 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#14,379 / 45.9k
Projects in all
2
100% fixed0% hourly
World#328,889 / 412k
🇮🇳Country#39,422 / 45.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$72.2kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$71k$72k$73k$74kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 0.61% in Web Development

Top 1% in 2 of 7 skills, ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #37Product Development3,593 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #1Top 1%
  2. #55Retrieval Augmented Generation3,618 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #7Top 2%
  3. #59Web Application9,341 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #5Top 0.63%
  4. #122Full-Stack Development9,452 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #23Top 1%
  5. #143Artificial Intelligence10,593 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #14Top 1%
  6. #149AI Agent Development11,048 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #22Top 1%
  7. #153Web Development25,055 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #19Top 0.61%