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.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $55k
Billed in all: $72,228$72k
$55k in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
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.
- #37Product Development3,593 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #1Top 1%🇮🇳#1 of 456
- #55Retrieval Augmented Generation3,618 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #7Top 2%🇮🇳#7 of 801
- #59Web Application9,341 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #5Top 0.63%🇮🇳#5 of 1,999
- #122Full-Stack Development9,452 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #23Top 1%🇮🇳#23 of 2,223
- #143Artificial Intelligence10,593 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #14Top 1%🇮🇳#14 of 1,972
- #149AI Agent Development11,048 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #22Top 1%🇮🇳#22 of 2,193
- #153Web Development25,055 freelancers · 🇮🇳 #19Top 0.61%🇮🇳#19 of 5,236