Achal Shah
Tech Lead Manager at YouTube
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAchal Shah is a Tech Lead Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building full-stack and machine learning systems, currently leading the core engineering for the YouTube Web Player that serves billions across devices and Google integrations. He combines hands-on deep learning and computer vision expertise—from academic protein-function models and audio super-resolution—to large-scale production web architectures at YouTube. Known for improving developer workflows and release velocity (e.g., automating AWS/Jenkins at HypeVR), he blends cross-disciplinary engineering with team leadership. Comfortable shifting between low-level C++ and high-level ML stacks, Achal brings a pragmatic focus on performance, reliability, and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Data science, Master's degree Data science at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and communication Engineering at Vishwakarma Government Engineering Collegehigh school High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, high school High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Shree Vidyanagar High School
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (107)
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
lasagne10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
numpy10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
tensor10
jax10
data-science10
tensorflow10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
achalshah20/darknet-cpp
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 16 pushes in 7 months
achalshah20/pytorch
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
pythongpu-accelerationdeep-learninggpuacceleration
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